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Global Water Released by Land and Plants

Evapotranspiration - LIS 10km Global DA
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Maps total evapotranspiration worldwide, the combined water that evaporates from soil and is released by plants, on a 10-kilometre grid.

How it's made. Modelled by NASA's Land Information System, which folds satellite measurements into a global land-surface simulation.

How & where you'd use it. Supports tracking droughts, water availability, and the global water cycle.

What's measured

lisglobalevap

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2002-08-02 → 2021-12-01
  • Spatial extent-179.95, -59.982, 179.997, 90
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

Gridded total evapotranspiration (in kg m-2 s-1) from 10km global LIS with assimilation

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("lis-global-da-evap")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).