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Theia Data Terra Catalogue - Hydroweb & Surface Water Products

French Theia/Data Terra land surfaces catalogue exposing satellite water products: Hydroweb altimetric river/lake water levels and storage, Sentinel-2 surface watermasks, and high-resolution radar/optical soil moisture maps.

catalogue.theia.data-terra.org

At a glance

Region
France (Global)
Coverage
Global
Access
Free
Category
Research Institute
Last updated
2025

What's inside

  • river water level
  • lake water level
  • surface water extent
  • soil moisture

Terms explained

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Storage tracking

    Follow storage and releases through the season.

    Because it has: river water level

  2. 02

    Change over time

    See how lakes and wetlands have grown or shrunk.

  3. 03

    Irrigation scheduling

    Decide when and how much to irrigate.

    Because it has: soil moisture

Where AI adds value

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

  1. 01

    Storage from space

    Estimate volume from satellite water area and altimetry.

  2. 02

    Release decisions

    Optimise releases against inflow forecasts.

  3. 03

    Field-scale ET

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

Machine access and documentation

Open API

OGC/CSW catalogue API and metadata records; data download via portal

Licence: Open data

Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.

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