Endorheic and Ephemeral Lakes
Following are background resources and links to support the 16 May 2025 FMA conference presentation “The arid area ARR forgot” and the July 2025 Australian Water School webinar on endorheic and ephemeral lake hydrology and ecosystems. The project was presented as a case study on our global webinar covering surface water mapping from satellite data. View the free webinar recording here:
View Stantec’s project description of the case study here:
Presentation Slides
Download the pdf version of the presentation slides here:
REferenced Papers
2021 paper by Short, et al.: Two centuries of water-level records at Lake George, NSW:
2015 paper by Mueller, et al.: Water observations from space: Mapping surface water from 25 years of Landsat imagery across Australia
2023 paper by Di Ciacca, et al.: Deriving transmission losses in ephemeral rivers using satellite imagery and machine learning:
Data Sources
Geoscience Australia: Water Observations from Space
Open Source Earth Observation at Scale: Open Data Cube
TU Munich’s Database for Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters (DAHITI) available satellite data:
DAHITI’s Australian station data:
DAHITI’s API V2 documentation
Global Reservoirs and Lakes Monitor: G-REALM
G-REALM Australian Data for Lake Raeside
Machine Learning Resources
lidar Python package: GitHub links
lidar Python package: Real world examples
Mapping wetland hydrological dynamics using Google Earth Engine (GEE) by Dr. Qiusheng Wu: Source code and documentation
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