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The European Commission's Joint Research Centre developed this water dataset in the framework of the Copernicus Programme. This maps the location and temporal distribution of water surfaces at the global scale over the past 3.6 decades and provides statistics on the extent and change of those water surfaces. The dataset, produced from Landsat imagery, will support applications including water resource management, climate modelling, biodiversity conservation and food security.

We need to go back in time to accurately measure changes in surface water

Disappearing Aral Sea Lake expansion in the Tibetan Plateau New dam (Sudan) Disappearing lake (Lake Milh-Iraq)