Radar versus optical: The impact of cloud cover when mapping seasonal surface water for health applications in monsoon-affected India

• Gowri Uday ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gowri Uday, France F. Gerard

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengalore, India

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• Bethan V. Purse ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BVP, DIK and AS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, United Kingdom

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• Douglas I. Kelley ,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BVP, DIK and AS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, United Kingdom

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• Abi Vanak,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengalore, India, School of Biological Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Abhishek Samrat ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  ¶‡ BVP, DIK and AS also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliations Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengalore, India, School of Engineering and Computing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

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• Anusha Chaudhary,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengalore, India, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Mujeeb Rahman,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengalore, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1130-9842

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• France F. Gerard

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gowri Uday, France F. Gerard

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ffg@ceh.ac.uk

  Affiliation UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-5174

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