Available Water Content - Global Dataset - Dataset

Field	Value
Author	Natural Capital Project, Stanford University
Tags	AVAILABLE WATER CONTENT AWC SOIL
Places	GLOBAL
Last Updated	March 20, 2025, 22:20 (UTC)
Created	March 20, 2025, 22:16 (UTC)
Natcap Last Updated	2025-03-20T22:20:54.769560+00:00

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Embed this layer into your website

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Use this data in Python

from osgeo import gdal

raster = gdal.OpenEx('/vsicurl/https://storage.googleapis.com/natcap-data-cache/global/awc-isric-soil/awc.tif')
band = raster.GetRasterBand(1)
array = band.ReadAsArray(
    xoff=my_window_x_offset,
    yoff=my_window_y_offset,
    win_xsize=my_window_width_in_pixels,
    win_ysize=my_window_height_in_pixels)