Blackrock Waterfowl Management Area

Flooded acreage monitoring dashboard

Sentinel-2 · BWMA · Owens Valley

Blackrock Waterfowl Management Area

Monthly flooded acreage monitoring · Inyo County, California

NIR threshold 15-day composite
Latest flooded
3.1 ac
Aug 2026 · 15-day composite
Month-over-month change
0.3 ac change
-0.3 ac vs prior month
Season peak
716.8 ac in Feb 2026
Nov–Mar · 500 ac target
Reporting units (7) Drew · Waggoner · West Winterton · East Winterton · South Winterton · Thibaut Ponds · Thibaut

Monthly flooded acreage by unit

Stacked totals by flood unit. Dashed line marks the 500 ac seasonal target (Nov-Mar).

Monthly report archive

Each cell links to that month’s archived report. The day number is the file label date (first scene in the collection)—not a single-scene acquisition. Since April 2026, reports follow the composite workflow below; older entries may reflect ad-hoc run dates and fewer scenes in the window.

Monthly Reports
Year Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
2024-25 22 22 03 06 05 21 01 04 02 04
2025-26 01 02 17 17 01 01 02 01 01 02 07 01
2026-27 01 03

Click a day number to open the HTML report (unit table, map, downloads).

Composite workflow (Apr 2026 onward): Run mid-month with start date YYYY-MM-01. All qualifying Sentinel-2 scenes in the 15-day window are cloud-masked and combined into a median composite; acreage uses NIR on that composite (threshold 0.14).

Earlier archive (before Apr 2026): The script always built a median composite, but reports were often run on ad-hoc dates when a clear scene was available—sometimes with only one pass in the window. Legacy report pages may say “imagery date”; that label is the filename date, not proof of a single scene.

Most recent report

August 2026 · Sentinel-2 composite · threshold 0.14 · ~3.1 ac (Drew)

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