Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes

  • Xuehui Pi,
  • Qiuqi Luo,
  • Lian Feng,
  • Yang Xu,
  • Jing Tang,
  • Xiuyu Liang,
  • Enze Ma,
  • Ran Cheng,
  • Rasmus Fensholt,
  • Martin Brandt,
  • Xiaobin Cai,
  • Luke Gibson,
  • Junguo Liu,
  • Chunmiao Zheng,
  • Weifeng Li,
  • Brett A. Bryan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33239-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Lakes are essential components of the hydrological and biogeochemical cycles. Here, Pi et al develop a global lake dataset called GLAKES via high-resolution satellite images and deep learning to examine global lake changes over four decades.