Mapping long-term global surface water occurrence - European Commission

Mapping long-term global surface water occurrence - European Commission
In an article published in Nature on 7 December 2016, JRC scientists describe how, in collaboration with Google, they have quantified changes in global surface waters and created interactive maps which highlight the changes in the Earth's surface water over the past 32 years.
"High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes" by Jean-François Pekel, Andrew Cottam, Noel Gorelic and Alan S. Belward. Nature (2016), doi: 10.1038/nature20584 ; Published online: 07 December 2016