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Usgs Water Collections Example

Example response from GET /collections showing available data collections

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Usgs Water Collections Example is an example object payload from Department of Interior, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

summarydescriptionvalue

Example Payload

{
  "summary": "USGS Water Data OGC API - Collections list response",
  "description": "Example response from GET /collections showing available data collections",
  "value": {
    "links": [
      {
        "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections",
        "rel": "self",
        "type": "application/json",
        "title": "Collections"
      },
      {
        "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0",
        "rel": "root",
        "type": "application/json",
        "title": "Landing Page"
      }
    ],
    "collections": [
      {
        "id": "continuous",
        "title": "Continuous Monitoring Data",
        "description": "Continuous sensor measurement data from USGS monitoring locations",
        "links": [
          {
            "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/continuous/items",
            "rel": "items",
            "type": "application/geo+json"
          }
        ],
        "extent": {
          "spatial": {
            "bbox": [
              [
                -180,
                -90,
                180,
                90
              ]
            ],
            "crs": "http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "daily",
        "title": "Daily Values",
        "description": "Daily statistical summaries of USGS water monitoring data",
        "links": [
          {
            "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/daily/items",
            "rel": "items",
            "type": "application/geo+json"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

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