SWAF-HR: A High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Water Surface Extent Product Over the Amazon Basin

Wetlands and open waters are key components of the hydrological and carbon cycles but their spatio-temporal dynamics are still not well known, mostly over tropical areas. In this paper, a new water surface product at high spatial resolution (30 arcsec) and high temporal resolution (3 days) over the Amazon basin for recent years (2010-2016) is presented. This product comes from the synergy between recent products: (1) water surface fraction at coarse spatial resolution from L-band microwave sensor (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity - SMOS), (2) Global Surface Water Occurrence (GSWO) from Landsat sensor and (3) the new Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Multi-Error-Removed-Improved-Terrain (MERIT) based on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) observations.