💧🌏 Greg CocksSep 19, 2023
Natural Floodplains Are Quickly Vanishing
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https://eos.org/articles/natural-floodplains-are-quickly-vanishing <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02382-x <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #hydrospatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #floodplains #floodplain #loss #remotesensing #satellite #model #modeling #GFPLAIN250m #GFPLAIN #SRTM #ESA #NASA #opendata #riverbasins #fluvial #fluvialgeomorphology #geomorphology #agriculture #landcover #humanimpact #metrics #landscape #resource #globalmapping
Natural Floodplains Are Quickly Vanishing

From 1992 to 2019, 600,000 square kilometers of natural floodplains were lost globally due to land conversion.

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