UNEP/GRID-Geneva metadata catalogue
HydroSHEDS
HydroSHEDS (Hydrological data and maps based on SHuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple Scales) provides hydrographic information in a consistent and comprehensive format for regional and global-scale applications.
The HydroSHEDS database provides a suite of raster and vector datasets, covering many of the common derivative products used in hydrological analyses, including stream networks, watershed boundaries, drainage directions, and ancillary data layers such as flow accumulations, distances, and river topology information.
The goal of developing HydroSHEDS was to generate key data layers to support regional and global watershed analyses, hydrological modeling, and freshwater conservation planning at a quality, resolution and extent that has previously been unachievable. Available resolutions range from 3 arc-second (approx. 90 meters at the equator) to 5 minute (approx. 10 km at the equator) with seamless near-global extent.
HydroSHEDS has been developed by the Conservation Science Program of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), in partnership or collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT); The Nature Conservancy (TNC); McGill University, Montreal, Canada; the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; and the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Germany. Major funding for this project was provided to WWF by JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Sealed Air Corporation.
HydroSHEDS data are free for non-commercial and commercial use. See License Agreement for specific restrictions and use requirements.
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2009-01-01T00:00:00
- Identifier
- http://datacore.grid.unep.ch/geonetwork/srv/metadata/4237cc39-abef-44cb-a10b-11b0ffce43de
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- GRID core datasets
- watershed
- elevation
- drainage
- flow
- river
- Keywords ( Place )
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- World
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
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HydroSHEDS data are free for non-commercial and commercial use.
The following copyright statement must be displayed with, attached to or embodied in (in a reasonably prominent manner) the documentation or metadata of any Licensee Product or Program provided to an End User when utilizing the Licensed Materials:
This product [insert Licensee Derivative Product name] incorporates data from the HydroSHEDS database which is © World Wildlife Fund, Inc. (2006-2013) and has been used herein under license. WWF has not evaluated the data as altered and incorporated within [insert Licensee Derivative Product name], and therefore gives no warranty regarding its accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability for any particular purpose. Portions of the HydroSHEDS database incorporate data which are the intellectual property rights of © USGS (2006-2008), NASA (2000-2005), ESRI (1992-1998), CIAT (2004-2006), UNEP-WCMC (1993), WWF (2004), Commonwealth of Australia (2007), and Her Royal Majesty and the British Crown and are used under license. The HydroSHEDS database and more information are available at http://www.hydrosheds.org.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Inland waters
- Elevation
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- Supplemental Information
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- OnLine resource
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HydroSHEDS database (Link)
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- File identifier
- 4237cc39-abef-44cb-a10b-11b0ffce43de XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2016-04-27T13:42:01
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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