Surface water data for isolated stock ponds in southern Arizona, USA and northern Sonora, Mexico

These data were compiled to compare the ability of matched filtering (MF) and linear spectral mixture analysis (LSMA) to map isolated wetland sites using Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) data. We analyzed 81 stock ponds corresponding to a 2007 Landsat 5 image and 73 sites corresponding to a 2014 Landsat 8 image in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, with ponds ranging from completely dry to ~17,000 m2 surface water. Both Landsat images we used were Tier 1 Level-1 terrain corrected scenes acquired from Earth Explorer (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov), which were provided as individual bands represented by digital numbers (DNs). The inundation extent of stock ponds...

Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Ecology, Geography, Information Sciences, All tags... Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM), Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI), Mexico, Remote Sensing, San Rafael Valley, Santa Cruz County, Sonora, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wildlife Biology, biota, ecology, image collections, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, linear spectral mixture analysis, matched filtering, multispectral imaging, northern Mexico, riparian ecosystems, southern Arizona, stock ponds, surface water, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags