Digital Earth Africa Data and Products#
Digital Earth Africa provides Earth observation datasets and decision-ready products covering continental Africa. These are organised into DE Africa Continental Services and external datasets made available through DE Africa.
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Service continentaux de DE Africa#
These are datasets and products processed and maintained by Digital Earth Africa for consistent coverage across the African continent.
Agriculture#
Côtier#
Digital Earth Africa Coastlines
Annual shorelines and coastal-change rates across Africa at 30 m resolution from 2000 to the present.
Geomedians#
Cloud-free image composites generated from Landsat and Sentinel-2 observations.
Eaux de surface#
Individual, annual, and historical observations of surface water.
African waterbody locations and surface-area change at 30 m resolution from 1987 to the present.
Annual water-quality maps for African waterbodies from 2000 onward.
Végétation#
Green vegetation, non-green vegetation, and bare-soil fractions derived from Landsat observations.
Monthly vegetation-condition maps compared with the long-term baseline.
Long-term average vegetation condition for Landsat pixels across continental Africa.
Elevation and Topography#
Elevation data from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, together with DE Africa-derived topographic products.
Ensembles de données externes#
Datasets available through Digital Earth Africa but produced and maintained by external organisations.
Agriculture#
FAO’s remotely sensed data service for monitoring agricultural water productivity across Africa and the Near East.
DIWASA Blue and Green Evapotranspiration
Blue evapotranspiration represents irrigation-driven water use, while green evapotranspiration represents rainfall-driven water use.
Seasonal cropland and crop-type maps derived from high-resolution satellite observations.
Elevation and Topography#
Copernicus Digital Elevation Model
Copernicus elevation data with 30 m coverage in selected areas and global coverage at 90 m resolution.
Couverture du sol#
ESA Climate Change Initiative land-cover data at 300 m resolution.
Copernicus Global Land Service Land Cover
Annual global land-cover layers at 100 m spatial resolution.
Africapolis Urbanisation Database
Standardised geospatial data for comparing urbanisation patterns across African countries and through time.
Météorologie#
Daily and monthly rainfall estimates derived from satellite observations and rain-gauge measurements.
Global climate reanalysis data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service at ECMWF.
Images satellites#
Landsat Collection 2 Surface Temperature
Surface-temperature observations from Landsat 5, 7, 8, and 9.
Land-monitoring products from Sentinel-3 OLCI at 300 m resolution.
Atmospheric trace-gas and aerosol observations for air-quality and pollution analysis.
Satellite Image Mosaics#
Annual Synthetic Aperture Radar mosaics derived from JAXA ALOS PALSAR observations
Monthly Sentinel-1 mosaics for time-series analysis and integration with other datasets.
True-colour mosaics optimised for visual interpretation across tropical regions.
Eaux de surface#
Semi-continuous water-quality observations for medium and large lakes across Africa.
urbain#
Global settlement maps for 2015 and 2019 at 10 m resolution, with annual settlement-growth information at 30 m resolution.
Végétation#
Global mangrove baseline and change maps for selected years from 1996 to 2020.
Sol#
Root-zone soil-moisture analysis and forecasting data developed by the Australian National University Centre for Water and Landscape Dynamics.
About the Data#
Landsat Collection 2 Data Tiers
Learn how Digital Earth Africa uses Landsat Collection 2 data tiers.
Feedback#
For questions or feedback about Digital Earth Africa data and services, contact helpdesk@digitalearthafrica.org.