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      A high-resolution dataset of water bodies distribution over the Tibetan Plateau

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          Water body (WB) extraction is the basic work of water resources management. Tibetan Plateau is one of the largest alpine lake systems in the world. However, research on the characteristics of water bodies (WBs) is mainly focused on large and medium WBs due to spatial resolution. This research presents a dataset containing a 2-m resolution map of WBs in 2020 based on Gaofen-1 data, and morphometric and landscape indices of WBs across the Tibetan Plateau. The Swin-UNet model is well performed with overall accuracy at 98%. The total area of WBs is 56354.6 km 2 across Tibetan Plateau in 2020. The abundance compared with that from size-abundance relationship indicate WBs in the Tibetan Plateau conformed to the classic power scaling law. We evaluate the influence of spatial-resolution in WB extraction, which shows the dataset could be valuable to fill the gap of existing WBs map, especially for small waters. The dataset is valuable for revealing the spatial patterns of WBs, and understanding the impacts of climate change on water resources in Plateau.

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                zb@radi.ac.cn
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                Sci Data
                Sci Data
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                Nature Publishing Group UK (London )
                2052-4463
                4 May 2024
                4 May 2024
                2024
                : 11
                : 453
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.9227.e, ISNI 0000000119573309, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, , Chinese Academy of Sciences, ; Beijing, 100094 China
                [2 ]International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing, 100094 China
                [3 ]China University of Mining & Technology-Beijing, ( https://ror.org/01xt2dr21) Beijing, 100083 China
                [4 ]GRID grid.9227.e, ISNI 0000000119573309, Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, , Chinese Academy of Sciences, ; Beijing, 100094 China
                [5 ]GRID grid.9227.e, ISNI 0000000119573309, Aerospace Information Research Institute, , Chinese Academy of Sciences, ; Beijing, 100094 China
                [6 ]University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ( https://ror.org/05qbk4x57) Beijing, 100049 China
                [7 ]GRID grid.9227.e, ISNI 0000000119573309, Center for Geo-Spatial Information, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, , Chinese Academy of Sciences, ; Shenzhen, 518055 China
                [8 ]GRID grid.9227.e, ISNI 0000000119573309, China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station, Aerospace Information Research Institute, , Chinese Academy of Sciences, ; Beijing, 100094 China
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                10.1038/s41597-024-03290-4
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                : 29 January 2024
                : 22 April 2024
                Funding
                Funded by: the Director Fund of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (Grant No. CBAS2022DF009) Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42201145)
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                hydrology,freshwater ecology
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