NASA Open Data Portal - Global Reservoir and Dam Database (GRanD v1)
GRanD v1: 6,862 reservoirs and associated dams (cumulative storage ~6,197 km3) with attributes, hosted on the NASA Open Data Portal (Socrata) with downloadable geospatial files.
data.nasa.gov
At a glance
- Region
- United States (Global)
- Coverage
- Global
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Space Agency
- Last updated
- 2024
What's inside
- reservoir storage
- dam attributes
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: reservoir storage
- 02
Change over time
See how lakes and wetlands have grown or shrunk.
- 03
Operations
Support release and supply decisions.
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
Shrinkage alerts
Detect water bodies that are drying or being encroached.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Socrata Open Data (SODA) API on data.nasa.gov
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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