Canada Active Floods Open Data (RADARSAT)
Natural Resources Canada Emergency Geomatics Service providing near-real-time flood extent polygons derived from RADARSAT SAR and Landsat imagery, updated within 4 hours during active flood events
open.canada.ca
At a glance
- Region
- Canada (North America)
- Coverage
- Canada nationwide, near-real-time during events
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
What's inside
- Flood Extent Maps
- SAR Flood Detection
- Near-Real-Time Mapping
- Emergency Response Data
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Hazard maps
Map flood-prone areas and who and what is exposed.
Because it has: Flood Extent Maps
- 02
Model validation
Check flood models against observed events.
- 03
No-gauge areas
Monitor places with no ground stations.
Because it has: SAR Flood Detection
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Flood extent from SAR
Segment flooded areas in radar imagery, even through cloud.
- 02
Depth estimates
Learn flood depth from terrain, rainfall and past events.
- 03
Segmentation
Map water, crops and land use pixel by pixel with deep learning.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
CKAN API, dataset 9cad712a-5ac5-4248-b7d7-2db1a3892509 on open.canada.ca
Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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