DEA Water Observations (Australia)
Digital Earth Australia surface water observations classifying every Landsat pixel as wet, dry, or invalid for all of Australia from 1986 to present, formerly known as Water Observations from Space (WOfS)
dea.ga.gov.au
At a glance
- Region
- Australia (Oceania)
- Coverage
- All of mainland Australia and Tasmania, 1986-present
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
What's inside
- Surface Water Classification
- Wet/Dry Pixel Maps
- Water Frequency Statistics
- Historical Water Extent
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 Classification
- 02
Change over time
See how lakes and wetlands have grown or shrunk.
- 03
No-gauge areas
Monitor places with no ground stations.
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
Segmentation
Map water, crops and land use pixel by pixel with deep learning.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Machine-readable endpoint on explorer.dea.ga.gov.au
Licence: CC-BY 4.0
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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