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JRC Global Surface Water Monthly

This publication is a byte-for-byte mirror of the JRC (European Commission Joint Research Centre) Global Surface Water Monthly History tiles for 2017 to 2024, in two editions: VER5-0 under tiles/ for 2017 to 2021, and V1.5 under v1_5/ for 2022 to 2024. This republication does not include the full 1984 to present history.

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: monthly surface water cover classification (water / not water / no observation) at 30 m
Coverage docs-verified: Global, 504 zones of 10° × 10° in a 14 × 36 grid, origin -180, 80 · 2017-01 to 2024-12 (2017–2021 VER5-0 under tiles/; 2022–2024 V1.5 under v1_5/; 1984 to present not included)
Resolution docs-verified: 30 m at the equator (~1/4000°), 40,000 × 40,000 px per zone; monthly composites
Formats docs-verified: GeoTIFF (tiled, no overviews for tiles/; Cloud-Optimized for v1_5/) · STAC index (Parquet)
Access docs-verified: Free and open, anonymous read via source.coop (public visibility). Licence: Copernicus Programme, free of charge, without restriction of use; attribute as "Source: EC JRC/Google"

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: FRA baseline: historical surface water presence near a site from monthly JRC tiles · Ecology / BNG baseline: screening for persistent or seasonal open water near habitat parcels · Flood context: checking water-cover history for a catchment or floodplain for 2017–2024 monthly periods
Audience llm-inferred: flood consultants · hydrologists · ecologists · GIS analysts

Limitations

Constraints docs-verified: Only 2017–2024 is mirrored; the full 1984 to present history is not included · Value 0 means no observation, not dry land; no NoData tag is declared, so mask 0 yourself · VER5-0 (2017–2021) and V1.5 (2022–2024) come from different Landsat collections; a comparison across the 2021/2022 boundary is between two products, not a time series · tiles/ files have no overviews, so low-zoom views read full resolution and use significant memory · STAC index covers tiles/ only; v1_5/ tiles must be built from the URL pattern · Mirror only: no endorsement by the European Commission or JRC implied

Licence: see product README
Authentication: Public; anonymous HTTPS/S3 access via data.source.coop
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Last successful page check: 14/10/2026
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Provenance & evidence

Verified via Source Cooperative API /api/v1/products/epoch (public product, updated 2026-10-09).

Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: manual-2026-10-15 (source.coop)