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Murray Global Intertidal Change Classification (Earth Engine UQ/murray/Intertidal/v1_1/global_intertidal)

Murray Global Intertidal Change Classification (Earth Engine UQ/murray/Intertidal/v1_1/global_intertidal) is an open dataset published by Murray/UQ/Google/USGS/NASA, under CC BY 4.0. It describes tidal flats. Coverage: global (coastal), 1984-2016 (v1.1 in Earth Engine); paper covers 1984-2019 (v1.2).

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What it describes

Habitat
Tidal flats
Variables
Distribution

Get the data

In Google Earth Engine load ImageCollection 'UQ/murray/Intertidal/v1_1/global_intertidal' (and data mask 'UQ/murray/Intertidal/v1_1/data_mask'); export the region of interest as GeoTIFF. Project site: intertidal.app. Version 1.2 (1984-2019, described in the 2022 Sci Data paper) download location not confirmed. The project download page https://www.intertidal.app/download offers a 'direct download' of the full high-resolution package via Google Cloud Storage (https://www.intertidal.app/download/direct-download; bucket URL not shown in fetched content - page embeds a Google Sites frame), Earth Engine (https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/tags/tidal-flats), a UNEP-WCMC 2016 layer (https://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/47), and an optional data-user registration Google Form.

How to cite it

Murray, N. J., Phinn, S. P., Fuller, R. A., DeWitt, M., Ferrari, R., Johnston, R., Clinton, N., Lyons, M. B. (2022). High-resolution global maps of tidal flat ecosystems from 1984 to 2019. Scientific Data 9: 542. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01635-5

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