USGS Water Services

USGS Water Services Latest Daily API

Daily data provide one data value to represent water conditions for the day. Throughout much of the history of the USGS, the primary water data available was daily data collected manually at the monitoring location once each day. With improved availability of computer storage and automated transmission of data, the daily data published today are generally a statistical summary or metric of the continuous data collected each day, such as the daily mean, minimum, or maximum value. Daily data are automatically calculated from the continuous data of the same parameter code and are described by parameter code and a statistic code. These data have also been referred to as “daily values” or “DV”.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 8

GET /collections/latest-daily Get Latest daily values metadata #

GET /collections/latest-daily/items Get Latest daily values items #

OPTIONS /collections/latest-daily/items Options for Latest daily values items #

POST /collections/latest-daily/items Get Latest daily values items with CQL2 #

GET /collections/latest-daily/items/{featureId} Get Latest daily values item by id #

OPTIONS /collections/latest-daily/items/{featureId} Options for Latest daily values item by id #

GET /collections/latest-daily/queryables Get Latest daily values queryables #

GET /collections/latest-daily/schema Get Latest daily values schema #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  contact:
    name: US Geological Survey - Water Data for the Nation
    url: https://waterdata.usgs.gov
    x-ogc-serviceContact:
      addresses: []
      emails:
      - value: wdfn@usgs.gov
      hoursOfService: pointOfContact
      links:
      - href: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/questions-comments/?referrerUrl=https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov
        type: text/html
      name: WDFN Support
  description: These APIs provide OGC-compliant interfaces to USGS water data, letting you download continuous sensor measurements, discrete field measurements, metadata about monitoring locations, and more.
  license:
    name: US Government work in the public domain
    url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  termsOfService: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  title: USGS Water Data OGC Latest Daily API
  version: 0.56.0
  x-keywords:
  - geospatial
  - data
  - api
  - hydrology
  - USGS
servers:
- description: 'These APIs provide OGC-compliant interfaces to USGS water data, letting you download continuous sensor measurements, discrete field measurements, metadata about monitoring locations, and more.

    '
  url: https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0
tags:


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