---
license: apache-2.0
---

This is the Hydro Dataset from the repo: https://github.com/isaaccorley/hydro-foundation-model

The dataset consists of ~106k sampled 256x256 Sentinel-2 patches containing water from around the globe. The images are from the Sentinel-2 L2A STAC collection hosted on the Planetary Computer. The 12 bands are: (B01, B02, B03, B04, B05, B06, B07, B08, B8A, B09, B11, B12).

## Files

- `hydro.tar.gz` (52 GB) — full dataset: 106,135 12-band uint16 GeoTIFFs (LERC_ZSTD, lossless). Extracts to `data/patch_*.tif`.
- `hydro-rgb.tar.gz` (1.6 GB) — RGB quicklook JPEGs (true color B04/B03/B02, reflectance / 3000, clipped to [0,1]). Extracts to `data_jpg/patch_*.jpg`.

## Usage

```bash
tar -xzf hydro.tar.gz        # -> data/
tar -xzf hydro-rgb.tar.gz    # -> data_jpg/
```

## Cite

If you use this dataset in your research please cite the following:

```bibtex
@misc{isaac_corley_2025,
	author       = { Isaac Corley and Caleb Robinson },
	title        = { Hydro Dataset },
	year         = 2025,
	url          = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/isaaccorley/Hydro },
	doi          = { 10.57967/hf/7301 },
	publisher    = { Hugging Face }
}
```