Digital Earth Africa Waterbodies Monitoring Service
Digital Earth Africa
- License
- Attribution
- Commercial
- Yes
- Format
- Several
- Coverage
- Africa (continental)
- Last updated
- Added to findgis 29 Oct 2026 · Update frequency Irregular
More than 700,000 persistent and seasonal water bodies, including some river segments, with surface-area change over three decades.
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Source and attribution
- Publisher
- Digital Earth Africa
- License
- Attribution
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- Yes
- Modification allowed
- Yes
- Redistribution allowed
- Yes
- Share-alike
- No
- Region
- Africa
- Type
- Vector
- Service
- S3https://deafrica-services.s3.af-south-1.amazonaws.com/?prefix=waterbodies/WMShttps://ows.digitalearth.africa/wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
- Extent
- -26-476438West, south, east, north. Approximate region extent.
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