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. 2021 Oct 28;8:277. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-01059-7

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Results from the S1GBM C-band backscatter signature analysis for major land cover classes, which are provided by the 100 m Land Cover Version 2.0 product of CGLS. The heatlines in (a) and (b) show the S1GBM’s normalised backscatter distribution within the total area of each major land cover class, for VV and VH, respectively. In preparation for the mapping of permanent water bodies (PWB), (c) and (d) show the distributions for the globally combined water- and land- surfaces, with the combined classes indicated by blue and brown bars in (a) and (b) legends. For the PWB-mapping, three land cover classes have been excluded due to the lack of clear separability against the water classes, i.e. due to largely overlapping distributions. The selected thresholds for VV and VH mosaics used in our PWB-mapping algorithm are indicated as red lines.