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Short-delay water levels of lakes and rivers (Copernicus)

Sentinel-3 SRAL Land Radar Altimetry - Hydrology (STC)
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In plain English

What it measures. Surface-height estimates for inland lakes and rivers, capturing how high their water stands.

How it's made. Derived from the SRAL radar altimeter aboard ESA Copernicus' Sentinel-3 satellites as a Level-2 hydrology product, in a "slow-time-critical" version balancing delay and quality.

How & where you'd use it. Supports water-resource monitoring and flood or drought tracking with a modest delay and improved reliability.

What's measured

SentinelCopernicusESASatelliteRadarAltimetryLandEUEC

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2023-09-18 → ongoing
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90

What you can do with it

  • Watch sea-surface temperature and marine heatwaves
  • Spot algal blooms and ocean-colour shifts
  • Support fisheries and coastal monitoring
Official description

This Collection provides Sentinel-3 SRAL Level-2 Land Altimetry Hydrology products, which contains surface topography estimations of lakes and rivers.

Get the data

copernicus_access.py
# ESA Copernicus Data Space — open STAC API (free account)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/v1")
search = cat.search(
    collections=["sentinel-3-sr-2-lan-hy-stc"],   # add _cog or _nc for a format variant
    bbox=(-10, 35, 30, 60),             # your area (W,S,E,N)
    datetime="2024-01-01/2024-12-31",
)
items = list(search.items())            # then read assets with rioxarray / xarray
Browsing the Copernicus STAC is open; downloading bytes needs a free Copernicus Data Space account.