Ocean Data Viewer

About the site
  • Dataset detail
  • Global Distribution of Tidal Flat Ecosystems
  • Access
  • Description

  • The dataset contains global maps of tidal flat ecosystems produced via a supervised classification of 707,528 Landsat Archive images. Each pixel was classified into tidal flat, permanent water or other with reference to a globally distributed set of training data.

    The maps were created to identify the non-vegetated areas of Earth’s coastline that undergo regular tidal inundation. In some areas, these occur as tidal flats up to 24-km wide, such as the tidal mudflats of western Europe and East Asia. Our analysis included 56 predictor layers of which many were Landsat composite metrics designed to identify individual pixels that undergo frequent wetting and drying.

  • Use constraints

  • Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0). See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for details. Free to (1) copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, (2) remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

LAST PAGE UPDATE

18/02/19