Global Reservoir and Dam (GRanD), v1 - DAMS

The Global Reservoir and Dam Database, Version 1 (Revision 01) contains 6,862 records of reservoirs and their associated dams with a cumulative storage capacity of 6,197 cubic km. The dams were geospatially referenced and assigned to polygons depicting reservoir outlines at high spatial resolution. Dams have multiple attributes, such as name of the dam and impounded river, primary use, nearest city, height, area and volume of reservoir, and year of construction (or commissioning). While the main focus was to include all dams associated with reservoirs that have a storage capacity of more than 0.1 cubic kilometers, many smaller dams and reservoirs were added where data were available. The data were compiled by Lehner et al. (2011) and are distributed by the Global Water System Project (GWSP) and by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). For details please refer to the Technical Documentation which is provided with the data.

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Date ( Publication )
2011-01-01T00:00:00
Identifier
http://datacore.grid.unep.ch/geonetwork/srv/metadata/7c2fde9b-03cf-4ec5-8d52-b91c8cff145b
Originator
NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) CIESIN

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As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • GRID core datasets
Keywords ( Place )
  • World
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License
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The Global Water System Project (GWSP) holds the copyright of this data set. The GRanD database is freely available for non-commercial use. Users are prohibited from any commercial resale, or redistribution without explicit written permission from the authors (Lehner et al. 2011) or GWSP.
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1000000
Metadata language
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UTF8
Topic category
  • Inland waters
Begin date
2011
End date
2011
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
OnLine resource
Download link at Ciesin ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Download link at Ciesin

OnLine resource
grand-v1:grand-v1-dams-rev01 ( OGC:WMS )

Global Reservoir and Dam Database: Dams

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7c2fde9b-03cf-4ec5-8d52-b91c8cff145b XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2016-04-27T13:46:55
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
UNEP/GRID-Geneva, University of Geneva - Andrea de Bono ( Data officier )
Geneva Switzerland

 
 

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