SandWatch

Data documentation

Every satellite scene actually used in this project’s results, with its real scene ID, acquisition date, and cloud cover — nothing here is a placeholder.

Sources

  • Imagery: Sentinel-2 L2A, via the public AWS sentinel-cogs bucket (Element84 Earth Search STAC API), windowed reads only — no full-scene downloads, no account required.
  • River geometry: OpenStreetMap, via the Overpass API (ODbL license).
  • Extraction reports: real press/NGO/academic sources per reach — see the Sites page for each citation.

Scenes used

ReachRoleScene IDDatetimeCloud cover
yamuna_shamli_inrecentS2B_43RFN_20250324_0_L2A2025-03-240.0%
yamuna_shamli_inbaselineS2A_43RFN_20190430_1_L2A2019-04-300.0%
krishna_vijayawada_inrecentS2C_44QMD_20250208_0_L2A2025-02-080.0%
krishna_vijayawada_inbaselineS2B_44QMD_20190327_0_L2A2019-03-270.3%
doodhganga_budgam_inrecentS2B_43SDT_20250429_0_L2A2025-04-290.0%
doodhganga_budgam_inbaselineS2B_43SDT_20190401_1_L2A2019-04-010.4%
mekong_chaudoc_vnrecentS2C_48PWT_20250409_0_L2A2025-04-0913.9%
mekong_chaudoc_vnbaselineS2A_48PWS_20190421_0_L2A2019-04-214.6%
benue_makurdi_ngrecentS2A_32NMP_20241214_0_L2A2024-12-140.0%
benue_makurdi_ngbaselineS2A_32NMP_20181216_0_L2A2018-12-160.1%
kallada_kollam_inrecentS2B_43PFL_20250328_0_L2A2025-03-283.1%
kallada_kollam_inbaselineS2B_43PFK_20190330_0_L2A2019-03-303.2%
stcroix_grantsburg_usrecentS2B_15TWL_20250130_0_L2A2025-01-300.0%
stcroix_grantsburg_usbaselineS2A_15TWL_20190420_1_L2A2019-04-200.0%
Full data provenance, including verified API access tests and the source registry (license, resolution, coverage, known limitations per source), is documented in research/data_provenance.md in the source repository.