EOLakeWatch: Image archive

Welcome to the image archive!

This page hosts a collection of high-quality optical satellite images across Canadian lakes from many different earth observation satellites and repositories.

These images highlight examples of water-related topics including: lake ice, algal blooms, suspended sediments, and more.

Click on the image thumbnails in the table below to enlarge the images, and view their captions.

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Region	Date	Satellite	Theme
Great Lakes	2019-03-25	MODIS Terra	Lake Ice
Lake Erie	2018-04-20	MODIS Terra	Suspended Sediments
Lake Erie	2017-09-26	Landsat8	Algal Bloom
Lake Erie	2015-07-28	Landsat8	Algal Bloom
Lake St. Clair	2015-07-28	Landsat8	Algal Bloom
Lake Erie	2012-03-21	MODIS Terra	Suspended Sediments
Great Lakes	2011-10-09	MODIS Aqua	Algal Bloom
Lake Erie	2011-10-05	Landsat8	Algal Bloom
Lake of the Woods	2016-08-26	Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument	Algal Bloom
Lake Winnipeg	2011-09-09	MERIS	Algal Bloom
Lake Winnipeg	2019-05-20	Sentinel 3 – Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI)	Lake Ice, Spring DOC (dissolved organic carbon)
Lake Winnipeg	2019-07-27	Sentinel 3 – Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI)	Algal Bloom
Lake of the Woods	2020-04-22	Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument	Lake Ice
Lake Erie	2020-08-22	Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument	Algal Bloom
Lake St. Clair	2020-08-22	Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument	Algal Bloom
Lake of the Woods	2020-08-10	Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument	Algal Bloom
Lake of the Woods	2020-09-19	Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument	Suspended Sediments
Lake of the Woods	2020-09-29	Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument	Algal Bloom
Lake Winnipeg	2020-08-18	Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument	Algal Bloom
Lake Winnipeg	2020-09-25	Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument	Algal Bloom
Lake Erie	2021-05-18	Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager	Suspended Sediments