Surface Water Loss map and Urbanization map

<p>Surface water are severly affected by human activities, and here we defined&nbsp;two novel datasets, both derived from remote sensing data, to investigate&nbsp;the influence of urban areas on the spatial distribution of&nbsp;surface water loss locations across the watersheds in the United States: the Surface Water Loss map and the Urbanization map.</p> <p>The Surface Water Loss map is a binary map that identifies the geographical location of surface water depletion hotspots. It was&nbsp;obtained from the Surface Water Transitions layer of the Global Surface Water dataset (Pekel et al., 2016). Pixels values in the map are as follows: 0&nbsp;= No surface water loss, 1 = Surface water loss hotspots.</p> <p>The Urbanization map is a binary map that shows the presence of built-up areas. It was&nbsp;generated from the GHS-BUILT layer from the Global Human Settlement dataset (Corbane et al., 2019). Pixels values in the map are as follows: 0&nbsp;= No urban area, 1 = Urban area.<br><br><em>References:</em><br>Corbane et al. (2019). Automated global delineation of human settlements from 40 years of Landsat satellite data archives. Big Earth Data 3, 140-169, https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2019.1625528</p> <p>Pekel et al. (2016). High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes. Nature, 540, 418-422, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20584</p>