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Global Total Water Stored on Land

Terrestrial Water Storage - LIS 10km Global DA
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Maps terrestrial water storage worldwide, all the water held in soil, groundwater, snow, and surface water combined, in millimetres.

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. Helps track droughts, floods, and long-term changes in regional water resources.

What's measured

lisglobaltws

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 terrestrial water storage (in mm) 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-tws")
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).