Digital Earth Africa
Free and open satellite imagery platform for the entire African continent built on Open Data Cube providing analysis-ready Landsat, Sentinel, and derived products including water observations and lake water quality
digitalearthafrica.org
At a glance
- Region
- Africa
- Coverage
- Entire African continent, 6+ petabytes
- Access
- Free
- Category
- International
What's inside
- Satellite Imagery
- Water Observations
- Land Cover
- Water Quality
- Coastline Monitoring
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Hotspots and trends
Find where contamination is high and whether it is getting worse.
Because it has: Water Quality
- 02
Compliance checks
Compare samples against drinking water and discharge standards.
- 03
No-gauge areas
Monitor places with no ground stations.
Because it has: Satellite Imagery
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Risk maps
Predict contamination where no samples exist, from geology, land use and climate.
- 02
Anomaly alerts
Catch sudden spikes in sensor or lab data automatically.
- 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.digitalearth.africa
Licence: CC-BY 4.0
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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