Aqua Monitor Surface Water Gain (1985-2016)

The Deltares Aqua Monitor is an open tool that detects land and water conversions globally, during the last 30 years at 30m resolution. Results of the Aqua Monitor only show compound impacts of natural and human change or variability but does not look into water and sediment budgets which would be required to determine the causes of these changes. Static maps have been exported from the tool which displays accumulative land and water changes between 1985-2016. For further detail on the methodology see Nature Climate Change paper: http://nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n9/full/nclimate3111.html.