DEA Waterbodies (Australia)
Digital Earth Australia product mapping and monitoring 300,000+ open waterbodies across Australia using 30+ years of Landsat imagery with polygon outlines and surface area time series
dea.ga.gov.au
At a glance
- Region
- Australia (Oceania)
- Coverage
- 300,000+ Australian waterbodies, 1986-present
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
What's inside
- Water Body Polygons
- Surface Area Time Series
- Lake and Reservoir Monitoring
- Water Body Change Detection
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: Lake and Reservoir Monitoring
- 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
DEA Geoserver WFS dea-waterbodies
Licence: CC-BY 4.0
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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