European Commission Joint Research Centre
Global Surface Water Explorer
Landsat-derived mapping of the location and temporal change of surface water across the globe since 1984, quantifying permanent and seasonal water, and losses and gains in surface water extent.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesData from European Commission Joint Research Centre, used under European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU).
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- European Commission Joint Research Centre
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Temporal coverage
- 1984 onwards
- Resolution
- 30 m
- Update frequency
- annual
- Formats
- geojson, shapefile, netcdf
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- reservoir, resources, ecosystem