Raster · dataset · 2026
Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration of agricultural lands in California
Listed in California Open Data
This dataset represents regional agricultural evapotranspiration (ET) in groundwater basins and counties derived from OpenET estimates.
Description
Monthly or annual ET depth and volume data are summarized for the OpenET v2.1 ensemble value from October 2003 to 2025. The OpenET v2.1 ET datasets are natively produced at a 30m spatial resolution were created using Landsat imagery on Google Earth Engine.
The ensemble value was derived from six models. The description of six models and the ensemble value and their accuracy can be found at etdata.org. A California specific accuracy assessment etdata.org/impact-stories/advancing-groundwater-sustainability-with-california-dwr-openet/ provides additional information about OpenET data fidelity for key crop types and natural lands in the state (Volk et al., 2026).
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Packaged by County, Groundwater Basin, and Hydrological Region: The OpenET v2.1 evapotranspiration data has been packaged by state county, groundwater basin, or hydrological region to include data for all pixels that overlay three individual boundaries. The agricultural land mask was generated using the 2024 California Statewide Crop Mapping excluding urban lands and applied to all the years. Service/Hosted Location: 1.
The original summarized tables and shapefiles containing data summaries can be found on GitHub: github.com/cgmorton/cadwr-basin-summaries. 2. The 30-meter raster files and other datasets produced by OpenET can be downloaded from the OpenET API (openet-api.org/), Google Earth Engine (developers.google.com/s/results/earth-engine/datasets?q=openet), or SGMA-OpenET-California | Powered by Box (cadwr.app.box.com/v/OpenET-California). 3.
The agricultural land mask used to summarize is included below. Guidance: The original OpenET v2.1 30-meter ET data were created with units of mm, while the spatial averages are displayed on the SGMA data viewer are in depth units of inches and volume units of acre-feet. Blank cells indicate missing data or filtered errors.
Users should be aware that the spatial coverage of ET values may vary month-to-month and that a supplemental data layer describes the percent coverage for each month of data to guide interpretation and use. The percent coverage layers could be found in the folder(cadwr-basin-summaries) on GitHub.
Links
Get the data
- Agricultural ET in groundwater basins data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/4c950fea-7791-4472-b95c-6bf4be3cf062/resource/ea00517c… ↗
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- Agricultural ET in counties data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/4c950fea-7791-4472-b95c-6bf4be3cf062/resource/b203989a… ↗
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- Agricultural ET in hydrological regions data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/4c950fea-7791-4472-b95c-6bf4be3cf062/resource/2b978315… ↗
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- Metadata data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/4c950fea-7791-4472-b95c-6bf4be3cf062/resource/90ffa060… ↗
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- California agricultural land mask data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/4c950fea-7791-4472-b95c-6bf4be3cf062/resource/97238973… ↗
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Where it is published
- California Open Data dataset page data.ca.gov/dataset/remotely-sensed-evapotranspiration-of-agricultural-lan… ↗
landing page · from data ca gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ca.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=c4ac82f1-1ed9-4faa-9099-ed5433c28… ↗
metadata API · from data ca gov
Topics
- Stated by source
- Natural Resources · Water
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| California Open Data | c4ac82f1-1ed9-4faa-9099-ed5433c2854c | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
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| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing | mapping · data ca gov | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Satellite imagery'] |
| concepts[topic].ckan_group:data_ca_gov:natural-resources | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[topic].ckan_group:data_ca_gov:water | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| publication_date | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 |