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Falkland Islands inland waters (ponds and lakes)

The file describes the inland waters, as ponds and lakes, of the Falkland Islands. The file does not include all the features but it ensure that at least 75% of them have been recorded and will overlap with the official OS map (scale 1:50.000) of the Falklands.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Last Updated December 21, 2020, 10:00 (PST)
Created January 30, 2020, 05:20 (PST)
Region Falkland Islands
Language eng
Topic Category inland waters
Temporal Extent Start 2014-01-01
Temporal Extent End 2014-12-31
Dataset Reference Date 2014
Lineage The file was derived by performing a supervised classification on two Landsat 8 images taken in two different periods of time. June 2014 for West Falkland and August 2013 for East Falkland. By the time the work of retrieving inland waters was carried out these two images were the best available (as little cloud cover). The image analysis was conducted in QGIS using the semi-automatic classificationplugin. The task encountered several problems linked both to the plugin and to the quality of the images. Hence the results from the image analyses were checked and it was necessary to add features by manual digitisation using the OS maps in scale 1:50K as reference datasets. Hence the final version of the file is a mix of techniques and the representation of the inland water feature is not 100% but around 75%.
West Longitude 203902.91
South Latitude 4188188.33
East Longitude 448769.96
North Latitude 4338367.39
Spatial Reference System UTM 21S WGS84
Responsible Organisation Name Hidden (personal data protection)
Contact Mail Address Hidden (personal data protection)
Responsible Party Role Hidden (personal data protection)
Access Limitations Open access
Use Constraints Open, but copyright and/or Intellectual Property Rights apply
Resource Reference Please acknowledge data source as: SAERI
Data Format shape
Update Frequency not planned
Accuracy up to 40 metres
Resource Type Dataset
Original Title Hidden (internal use only)
Metadata Date 2015-01-12
Metadata Point of Contact datamanager@saeri.ac.fk
Contact Consent Contact details hidden
Unique Resource ID FK-SAERI-180

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