MODIS NDWI, monthly aggregated time series for Mauritania at 30 arc seconds (ca. 1000 meter) resolution (2019 - 2023)

Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) from MODIS data for Mauritania at 30 arc seconds (ca. 1000 meter) resolution (2019 - 2023).

Source data:

- MODIS/Terra Surface Reflectance 8-Day L3 Global 500 m SIN Grid (MOD09A1 v061): https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod09a1v061/

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra MOD09A1 Version 6.1 product provides an estimate of the surface spectral reflectance of Terra MODIS Bands 1 through 7 corrected for atmospheric conditions such as gasses, aerosols, and Rayleigh scattering. Along with the seven 500 meter (m) reflectance bands are two quality layers and four observation bands. For each pixel, a value is selected from all the acquisitions within the 8-day composite period. The criteria for the pixel choice include cloud and solar zenith. When several acquisitions meet the criteria the pixel with the minimum channel 3 (blue) value is used.

For the time period January 2019 - December 2023, the NDWI has been calculated from the Terra MOD09A1 Version 6.1 product. The layers B02 (near infrared) and B06 (shortwave infrared) of the original data have been processed. Bad quality pixels or pixels with snow/ice and/or cloud cover have been masked using the provided quality assurance (QA) layer. The time series has been gapfilled with a temporal and a spatial approach. Gaps in the time series were filled with a harmonic analysis of time series using six frequencies to also model relatively short-term changes in NDWI. Only missing values were replaced by modelled values. NDWI was calculated as the normalized difference of the bands B02 (near infrared) and B06 (shortwave infrared) with: NDWI = (B02 – B06) / (B02 + B06). This NDWI represents vegetation water content. The 8-day data are then aggregated to monthly temporal resolution using the average and reprojected to Latitude-Longitude/WGS84.

File naming:

ndwi_monthly_YYYY_MM_30arcsec.tif

e.g.: ndwi_monthly_2023_12_30arcsec.tif

The date within the filename are year and month of aggregated timestamp.

Pixel values:

Raster values are in the range [0, 2000]. Real NDWI in the range [-1, 1] can be retrieved with: NDWI = raster_value * 0.001 - 1.

Projection + EPSG code:

Latitude-Longitude/WGS84 (EPSG: 4326)

Spatial extent:

north: 28N

south: 14N

west: 18W

east: 4W

Temporal extent:

January 2019 - December 2023

Spatial resolution:

30 arc seconds (approx. 1000 m)

Temporal resolution:

monthly

Software used:

GRASS GIS 8.3.2

Format: GeoTIFF

Original dataset license:

All data products distributed by NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) are available at no charge. The LP DAAC requests that any author using NASA data products in their work provide credit for the data, and any assistance provided by the LP DAAC, in the data section of the paper, the acknowledgement section, and/or as a reference. The recommended citation for each data product is available on its Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Landing page, which can be accessed through the Search Data Catalog interface. For more information see: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod13a2v061/

Processed by:

mundialis GmbH & Co. KG, Germany (https://www.mundialis.de/)

Contact:

mundialis GmbH & Co. KG, info@mundialis.de

Acknowledgements:

This study was partially funded by EU grant 874850 MOOD. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and don't necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.

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Date ( Publication )
2025-01-30
Edition
1.0.0
Identifier
10.5281/zenodo.14764686
Status
On going
Point of contact
mundialis GmbH & Co. KG - ( )

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • MOOD-H2020
  • Normalized Difference Water Index
  • NDWI
  • Rift Valley Fever
  • RVF
Keywords ( Place )
  • Mauritania
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Human health and safety
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None
Access constraints
Other restrictions
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no limitations to public access
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All data products distributed by NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) are available at no charge.
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All LP DAAC current data and products acquired through the LP DAAC have no restrictions on reuse, sale, or redistribution.

The LP DAAC requests that any author using NASA data products in their work provide credit for the data, and any assistance provided by the LP DAAC, in the data section of the paper, the acknowledgement section, and/or as a reference. The recommended citation for each data product is available on its Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Landing page, which can be accessed through the Search Data Catalog interface.

For full information on LP DAAC Data Citation and Policies, see: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/data/data-citation-and-policies/
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Grid
Distance
30 arc-seconds
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
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  • Geoscientific information
  • Health
Description
Mauritania
Begin date
2019-01-01
End date
2023-12-31
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 8.6
Distribution format
  • GeoTiff ( )

OnLine resource
MODIS NDWI 2019 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

MODIS NDWI 2019

OnLine resource
MODIS NDWI 2020 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

MODIS NDWI 2020

OnLine resource
MODIS NDWI 2021 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

MODIS NDWI 2021

OnLine resource
MODIS NDWI 2022 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

MODIS NDWI 2022

OnLine resource
MODIS NDWI 2023 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

MODIS NDWI 2023

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Date ( Publication )
2020-12-08
Other citation details
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1089/2014-12-31
Explanation
See specified reference
Pass
Yes
Statement

Derived from: MODIS/Terra Surface Reflectance 8-Day L3 Global 500 m SIN Grid (MOD09A1 v061): https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod09a1v061/

NDWI has been calculated from the Terra MOD09A1 Version 6.1 product. The layers B02 (near infrared) and B06 (shortwave infrared) of the original data have been processed. Bad quality pixels or pixels with snow/ice and/or cloud cover have been masked using the provided quality assurance (QA) layer. The time series has been gapfilled with a temporal and a spatial approach.

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Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-01-31T07:26:21
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
mundialis GmbH & Co. KG - ( )

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(2025) . MODIS NDWI, monthly aggregated time series for Mauritania at 30 arc seconds (ca. 1000 meter) resolution (2019 - 2023).
https://data.opendatascience.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/e4941c0b-27c0-4522-857f-5e02d719721e

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