{
  "version": 1,
  "name": "Water Data APIs",
  "description": "API access to public USGS water data.",
  "count": 9,
  "services": [
    {
      "id": "continuous-values",
      "name": "Continuous Values",
      "description": "This API provides the most recent real-time measurements of streamflow, gage height, and hundreds of other parameters for USGS monitoring locations.",
      "documentationUrl": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/continuous",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Continuous Values API",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/continuous"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "daily-values",
      "name": "Daily Values",
      "description": "Interested in historical summarized daily data about our nation's streams, lakes and wells? This API provides a wealth of historical water data. Daily data is available for USGS water monitoring locations include mean, median, maximum, minimum, and/or other derived values.",
      "documentationUrl": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/daily",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Daily Values API",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/daily"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "monitoring-locations",
      "name": "Monitoring Locations",
      "description": "Location information is basic information about the monitoring location including the name, identifier, agency responsible for data collection, and the date the location was established. It also includes information about the type of location, such as stream, lake, or groundwater, and geographic information about the location, such as state, county, latitude and longitude, and hydrologic unit code (HUC).",
      "documentationUrl": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/monitoring-locations",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Monitoring Locations API",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/monitoring-locations"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "time-series-metadata",
      "name": "Time Series Metadata",
      "description": "Daily data and continuous measurements are grouped into time series, which represent a collection of observations of a single parameter, potentially aggregated using a standard statistic, at a single monitoring location. This endpoint provides metadata about those time series, including their operational thresholds, units of measurement, and when the earliest and most recent observations in a time series occurred.",
      "documentationUrl": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/time-series-metadata",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Time Series API",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/time-series-metadata"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ogc-compliant-apis",
      "name": "OGC-Compliant APIs",
      "description": "USGS offers Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant APIs, which will let you download continuous service measurements, discrete field measurements, metadata about monitoring locations, and more. These services all share a standard interface and documentation.",
      "documentationUrl": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/docs/ogcapi/",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "OGC APIs Home",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Endpoint Catalog",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections?f=html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Download data form",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/download"
        },
        {
          "label": "OpenAPI Documentation",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/openapi?f=html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Long-form documentation",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/docs/ogcapi/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "water-quality-services",
      "name": "Water Quality Services",
      "description": "The USGS and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) each collect vast amounts of water quality data. The Water Quality Portal provides publicly available discrete water-quality data from the USGS, EPA, and over 400 state, federal, tribal, and local agencies in Water Quality Exchange (WQX) 3 formats, while the USGS Samples API provides direct API access to USGS discrete water quality observations.",
      "documentationUrl": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/samples-data/docs",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Water Quality Portal",
          "href": "https://www.waterqualitydata.us/beta/"
        },
        {
          "label": "USGS Water Samples API",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/samples-data/docs"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "usgs-water-data-statistics",
      "name": "USGS Water Data Statistics",
      "description": "This service provides endpoints for access to computations on the historical record regarding water conditions.",
      "documentationUrl": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/statistics/v0/docs",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "USGS Water Data Statistics API",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/statistics/v0/docs"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "real-time-flood-impacts",
      "name": "Real-Time Flood Impacts",
      "description": "The Real-Time Flood Impact (RTFI) API exposes the locations, called Flood Impact Locations, where the USGS measured the height of critical safety or infrastructure that may be vulnerable to flooding. Examples of Flood Impact Locations include embankments, roads and bridges, pedestrian paths, and buildings. Flood Impact Locations are surveyed and associated with a nearby USGS real-time streamgage.",
      "documentationUrl": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/rtfi-api/docs",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Real-Time Flood Impacts (RTFI) API",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/rtfi-api/docs"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "national-imagery-management-system",
      "name": "National Imagery Management System",
      "description": "The National Imagery Management System (NIMS) collects, stores, processes, and delivers imagery from USGS gaging stations for public consumption. This API provides programmatic access to NIMS resources, including camera metadata and image file listings.",
      "documentationUrl": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/docs/nims",
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "NIMS API Home",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/docs/nims"
        },
        {
          "label": "Swagger UI Documentation",
          "href": "https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/nims/v0/docs"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}