NASA SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) Data Portal
SWOT satellite mission data providing high-resolution measurements of water surface elevation for lakes, reservoirs, and rivers globally, launched December 2022.
swot.jpl.nasa.gov
At a glance
- Region
- United States (Global)
- Coverage
- Global
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Research
What's inside
- Water Surface Elevation
- Lake Level
- River Width
- Discharge Estimation
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: Lake Level
- 02
Change over time
See how lakes and wetlands have grown or shrunk.
- 03
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: Discharge Estimation
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
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
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- SWORD - SWOT River DatabaseGlobal | Free
- NASA SWOT River Discharge v3Global | Free
- NOAA NCEI Marine Microplastics DatabaseGlobal | Free
- Adventure Scientists Global Microplastics InitiativeGlobal | Free
- APDRC CPC Global Daily PrecipitationGlobal | Free
- APDRC GPCP Merged Daily Precipitation v1.1Global | Free
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