Extended Data Fig. 2: Illustration of our method for the surface water connectivity index calculation.
From: Global net increase in surface water connectivity in river–floodplain systems
The surface water connectivity of a given water pixel (\({SWC}\)) was calculated by dividing the number of water pixels connected to the given pixel (\({N}_{c}^{{window}}\)) by the total number of water pixels (\({N}^{{window}}\)) within a specified window (6 km in our study). Connected water patches were identified using the ‘bwlabel’ function applied to the binary image, with all pixels within a patch considered connected.
