Africa Water Bodies (energydata.info)
Continental dataset of African water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, lagoons) as polygon GeoJSON and shapefile, curated from the RCMRD Geoportal under CC-BY 4.0 and downloadable from the energydata.info open data catalogue.
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At a glance
- Region
- Continental Africa (Africa)
- Coverage
- Continental
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Portal
- Last updated
- 2024
What's inside
- water bodies
- lakes
- reservoirs
- GIS
Terms explained
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: lakes
- 02
Change over time
See how lakes and wetlands have grown or shrunk.
- 03
Operations
Support release and supply decisions.
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
Shrinkage alerts
Detect water bodies that are drying or being encroached.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
CKAN-based open data catalogue (package/resource API)
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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