ObservationsDEMReservoirs
ASTER Global Water Bodies Database
ASTWBD Version 1. 30 m water body map produced with ASTER GDEM.
Ocean, river and lake classification with flattened water elevations, produced alongside ASTER GDEM v3 and matching its tiling. Useful for burning water bodies into a DEM before flow routing.
- Source
- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan), National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Resolution
- 30 m (1 arc-second)
- Data type
- Raster
- Time span
- 2000–2013
- Temporal
- Static
- Access type
- Download with free login · Free NASA Earthdata login
- Formats
- GeoTIFF
- Coverage
- 83°S – 83°N (-180, -83, 180, 83)
- Licence
- Free, no restrictions on reuse or redistribution
- DOI
- 10.5067/ASTER/ASTWBD.001
- Provider page
- lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/astwbdv001/
Cite as. NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Water Bodies Database V001. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/ASTWBD.001
Access
cmrASTWBD v001 tiles (attributes and elevation) from NASA Earthdata
Granules found through NASA's Common Metadata Repository (collection ASTWBD v001). Downloads need a free Earthdata login.
# Earthdata login in ~/.netrc:
# machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov login USER password PASS
curl -fsSL "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/aster-water-bodies/links.txt?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
| xargs -n 1 curl -fLO --netrc -b ~/.urs_cookies -c ~/.urs_cookiesimport earthaccess # pip install earthaccess
earthaccess.login()
results = earthaccess.search_data(short_name="ASTWBD", version="001",
bounding_box=(-75, -20, -50, 5))
earthaccess.download(results, "data")const res = await fetch("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/aster-water-bodies/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5");
const { groups } = await res.json();
for (const g of groups) g.links.forEach(l => console.log(l.url));Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record
