Links
| Site Name | URL |
|---|---|
| GEMS/Global Water Data Centre | https://gemstat.org/ |
| Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) | https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov/ Water surface elevation measured by satellite interferometric altimetry |
| Global Reservoirs/Lakes Monitor (G-REALM) | https://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/global_reservoir/ Pseudo real-time lake surface height variation measurement by satellite altimetry Foreign Agricultural Service/United States Department of Agriculture |
| Global Lakes & Reservoirs Repository | http://worldlake-db.com Provides Vector/Raster Data of Lake Shape |
| National Lakes Assessment | https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/nla A part of National Aquatic Resource Surveys by US EPA |
| Water Quality Portal | https://www.waterqualitydata.us/ National Water Quality Monitoring Council, USA |
| Lakes Online | http://www.lakesonline.com Lakes in the United States |
| International Data Centre on Hydrology of Lakes and Reservoirs | http://www.hydrolare.net Data on Hydrology of World Lakes and Reservoirs HYDROLARE/the State Hydrological Institute (St Petersburg, Russia) |
| Global Lakes and Wetlands Database | https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/global-lakes-and-wetlands-database WWF and the Center for Environmental Systems Research, Univ. of Kassel, Germany |
| Ezeri.lv database | https://www.ezeri.lv Database of lakes in Latvia |
| Ramsar: Homepage | http://www.ramsar.org |
| World Network of Biosphere Reserves | http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/biosphere-reserves/world-network-wnbr/wnbr/ UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves |
| World Heritage List | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/ UNESCO World Heritage Centre |
| Sites Related to Individual Lake | URL |
|---|---|
| Baikal | http://www.baikal.ru |
| Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute | https://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/japan/lake-biwa-environmental-research-institute-lberi/58b56471140ba006668b456b Local government institute responsible for Lake Biwa environment Shiga Prefectural Government, Japan |
| Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) | http://www.cblt.org/en |
| Chilika Develpment Authority | http://www.chilika.com |
| Commission Internationale pour la Protection des Eaux du Leman (CIPEL) | http://www.cipel.org |
| Lake Kasumigaura Database | http://db.cger.nies.go.jp/gem/moni-e/inter/GEMS/database/kasumi/index.html National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan |
| Laguna Lake Development Authority | http://llda.gov.ph/ |
| Lake Mashu, Long-term Environmental Monitoring | http://db.cger.nies.go.jp/gem/inter/GEMS/mashu/contents/database/dataindex.html National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan |
| Lake Tanganyika Authority | http://lta.iwlearn.org/ |
| Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) | https://www.lvbcom.org/ |
| Partly commercial but still great sites | URL |
|---|---|
| LakePedia | https://www.lakepedia.com |
