Global Lake Algal Bloom - Global Aqua Remote Sensing (GARS) laboratory

Global Lake Algal Bloom

Basic descriptions

This dataset provides maximum bloom extent (MBE, in km2) and median bloom occurrence (BO, in %) for 21,878 freshwater lakes worldwide in the entire period (1980s-2010s) and three sub-periods (1980–1990s, 2000s and 2010s), which was generated using Landsat satellite observation between 1982 to 2019.

Data download

The shapefiles are publicly available at this lab webpage via the following link:

https://osf.io/jz2e4/

http://lake.geodata.cn/data/datadetails.html?dataguid=52233571845320&docid=253

Related Publications

Hou, X., Feng, L.*, Dai, Y., Hu, C., Gibson, L., Tang, J., Lee, Z., Wang, Y., Cai, X., & Liu, J. (2022). Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade. Nature Geoscience, 15: 130–134.