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GLDAS Land Data Assimilation

Global Land Data Assimilation System

ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov

At a glance

Region
Global
Coverage
Global 0.25° resolution
Access
Free
Category
Space Agency
Last updated
2025

What's inside

  • Land Surface Models
  • Soil Moisture
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Runoff
  • Snow

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Irrigation scheduling

    Decide when and how much to irrigate.

    Because it has: Soil Moisture

  2. 02

    Water accounting

    Track how much water crops actually consume across a command area.

  3. 03

    Design flows

    Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.

    Because it has: Runoff

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Field-scale ET

    Estimate crop water use per field by combining satellite and weather with ML.

  2. 02

    Demand forecasts

    Predict irrigation demand weeks ahead for canal and pump planning.

  3. 03

    Flow forecasting

    Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.

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