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Welcome to Water Data Labs

Water Data Labs is an experimental site that exposes tools and technologies in development by the USGS Water Data for the Nation software team.

Users can explore and test experimental products on labs before they are incorporated into production systems. Some of the services, tools and visualizations that seen here will eventually make to the core waterdata.usgs.gov or waterservices.usgs.gov sites, but some may not.

Products hosted on waterdata labs will include:

  • Web services that do not have a stable API

  • Experimental visualizations or dashboards

  • Data integration prototypes

  • Experimental datasets and data integrations

  • SensorThings API for WaterData

    SensorThings logo

    SensorThings API is now available for USGS WaterData! This JSON-first API allows better dashboard and device integration, as well as real-time data access (less than 120 days old), and location metadata.

  • The Hydro-Network Linked Data Index

    thumbnail showing the upstream basin of a location the the tar river as a grey outline overlaid on a map, with and upstream flowline as dark blue, and a downstream flowline as light blue.

    The Hydro Network Linked Data Index (NLDI) puts a restful application programming interface (API) in front of the National Hydrolography dataset. Now, instead of needing to be a GIS professional, any web developer can build tools against the core data in the NHD in a scalable, workable way.

  • USGS Vizlab Portfolio

    A banner for the USGS Vizlab water data visualization team featuring an abstract streamgraph that mimics flowing water.

    The USGS Vizlab is a collaborative team that uses data visualization to communicate water science and data to non-technical audiences. Our mission is to create timely visualizations that distill complex scientific concepts and datasets into compelling charts, maps, and graphics. We operate at the intersection of data science and science communication.

  • Geo Data Portal (GDP) and THREDDS

    thumbnail showing spatial extent selection in orange on the Geo Data Portal user interface.

    Geo Data Portal (GDP) combined with THREDDS data server provides a user-interface for subsetting and summarization access to numerous gridded climate and land use datasets.

  • GeoServer

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    GeoServer provides high-performance and scalable data access for scientific datasets using open source standards, Web Mapping Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Coverage Service (WCS)

  • Pygeoapi

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    Pygeoapi is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards which provides the capability to deploy a RESTful OGC API endpoint using OpenAPI, GeoJSON, and HTML. This allows us to easily create custom Python geoprocesses/workflows and subsequently make them available through a public API using industry standards.

  • Graph Image API

    A line graph showing 7 days of hydrological data.  The line is orange, with black axes

    The graph image API allows users to download an image version of the new dynamic hydrograph that is on the next generation monitoring location pages.