Data of the paper "The Wastewater Contamination Index: A methodology to assess the risk of wastewater contamination from satellite-derived water quality indicators"

This dataset is part of the article with DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1130655. In the article, the authors employed satellite-derived Water Quality Indicators and spatiotemporal analysis to assess the risk of wastewater contamination in Conceição Lagoon, a coastal lagoon in Southern Brazil. The WQIs used are satellite-derived absorption coefficients of chlorophyll-a (chla) and coloured dissolved organic matter (CDOM), and the backscattering coefficient of suspended particulate matter (SPM).

The dataset comprises: 1) time series (2019-2021) of WQIs generated from the processing of Sentinel-2 Level 2A scenes with the 2SeaColor model, 2) time series (2019-2021) of the WQIs standardized anomalies (WQIs_Anomalies), and 3) time series (2019-2021) of the final Wastewater Contamination Index (WCI). The files are raster stacks in ENVI format (flat-binary raster file with an accompanying ASCII header file - *.HDR), which can be opened with most GIS software.