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Algae Dataset
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Chakaria HDSS
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Dhaka City
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- +DATA HUBSwhere the data physically comes from
- +DATASET TYPESgrouped by what kind of water they see
- +SITE-WISEwhat actually applies at each site
- +DURATION & CAPTURE CADENCEdaily · weekly · 10-day · 16-day · monthly
- +VARIABLESwhat is computed from the bands
- −LIMITATIONSwhy not — typed and severity-ranked
- +VALIDATION2 limitations · 1 critical
- +ACCESS6 limitations · 4 critical
- −SPATIAL6 limitations · 3 critical
- ·4 km pixel cannot resolve any inland water bodyCRITICALdataset AL01
- ·250 m works on the Meghna and nowhere else in this studyCRITICALdataset AL16
- ·Matlab shapefile contains 43 polygons from another upazilaCRITICALsite level
- ·300 m needs water wider than about 600 mHIGHdataset AL04
- ·1 km lake mask is unlikely to include your water bodiesHIGHdataset AL10
- ·Chakaria boundary has no internal unitsHIGHsite level
- +TEMPORAL7 limitations · 2 critical
- +ALGORITHMIC3 limitations · 1 critical
- +COVERAGE6 limitations · 1 critical
- +ATMOSPHERIC1 limitations
- +SPECTRAL2 limitations
- +PAPERSthe evidence, DOI-linked
HIGH 300 m needs water wider than about 600 m spatial blocks Dhaka
A 300 m pixel needs at least two clean pixels across the water body to avoid land contamination. The Matamuhuri estuary and the Meghna main channel qualify comfortably. In Dhaka only the widest reaches of the Buriganga and Shitalakshya come close, and even there the pixels are mixed - Hatirjheel is roughly 200 m at its widest, so every lake is out. The catalogue records Dhaka as MARGINAL rather than impossible for this reason.
What to do: At Dhaka use the Sentinel-2 B3/B5 phycocyanin proxy instead, and state clearly in the methods that it is a proxy rather than the 620 nm retrieval.