INPE Brazil Data Cube (BDC)
Brazilian National Institute for Space Research initiative producing analysis-ready data cubes from Sentinel-2, Landsat, and CBERS-4 satellites for water resource monitoring and land use classification
data.inpe.br
At a glance
- Region
- Brazil (South America)
- Coverage
- Brazilian territory, multi-satellite
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Space Agency
What's inside
- Analysis Ready Data Cubes
- Land Use Classification
- Vegetation Indices
- Surface Reflectance
- Time Series
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
No-gauge areas
Monitor places with no ground stations.
- 02
Long records
Use consistent records going back decades.
- 03
Change mapping
Map changes in water, land and vegetation.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Segmentation
Map water, crops and land use pixel by pixel with deep learning.
- 02
Data fusion
Blend satellite and ground data into one better estimate.
- 03
Change detection
Find what changed, at national scale, automatically.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Machine-readable endpoint on data.inpe.br
Licence: INPE open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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