GFCC Water Cover 2000: Global Surface Water at 30m Resolution

Data are available for selected dates between June 1999 and January 2003. The Global Forest Cover Change Water Cover 2000 dataset provides surface-water information at 30 meter spatial resolution, derived from NASA's GFCC Tree Cover and Forest Cover Change products. It is distributed by the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) through the NASA MEaSUREs Program.

Use Cases

• Mapping global surface water extent based on the 30-meter resolution waterbodies.
• Monitoring changes in water bodies over time using the derived classification-tree model.
• Integrating water cover data with forest cover change analysis for comprehensive land cover studies.
• Assessing terrestrial hydrosphere dynamics using the Worldwide Reference System-2 tiling scheme.

Strengths

• Provides surface-water information at a 30 meter spatial resolution.
• Derived from established NASA GFCC Tree Cover and Forest Cover Change products.
• Follows the Worldwide Reference System-2 tiling scheme for standardized geospatial referencing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data are available for selected dates between June 1999 and January 2003, not a continuous time series.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Derived from GFCC Tree Cover and Forest Cover Change products using a classification-tree model.

Time Range

Selected dates between June 1999 and January 2003

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 01:53:50.469550; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global