Landsat Collection 2 Water Index Products
USGS Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 surface reflectance products enable computation of water indices (NDWI, MNDWI) for mapping surface water bodies from 1984 to present at 30m resolution.
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At a glance
- Region
- United States (Global)
- Coverage
- Global
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
What's inside
- Surface Reflectance
- Water Index
- Surface Water Mapping
- Satellite Imagery
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 Mapping
- 02
Change over time
See how lakes and wetlands have grown or shrunk.
- 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
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 landsatlook.usgs.gov
Licence: US Government / USGS
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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