Africa GeoPortal
Open mapping community providing geospatial data and tools across Africa, including hydrology, wetland and surface-water layers accessible through ArcGIS-based services.
africageoportal.com
At a glance
- Region
- International (Africa)
- Coverage
- Africa
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Portal
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- surface water
- wetland inventory
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Storage tracking
Follow storage and releases through the season.
Because it has: surface water
- 02
Change over time
See how lakes and wetlands have grown or shrunk.
- 03
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Storage from space
Estimate volume from satellite water area and altimetry.
- 02
Release decisions
Optimise releases against inflow forecasts.
- 03
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
ArcGIS REST feature/map services
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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