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GRWL Global River Widths from Landsat

Allen and Pavelsky (2018). River centerlines with width for rivers wider than 30 m.

Centerlines of rivers wider than 30 m traced from Landsat images near mean annual discharge, with wetted width, number of channels and a lake or reservoir flag at every vertex. The vector archive is split into UTM-based tiles.

Source
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Zenodo
Resolution
Centerlines at 30 m spacing
Data type
Lines
Time span
Landsat mean annual discharge conditions
Temporal
Static
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
Shapefile, GeoTIFF mask
Coverage
60°S – 84°N (-180, -60, 180, 84)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.1297434
Provider page
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1297434

Cite as. Allen, G. H., Pavelsky, T. M. (2018). Global extent of rivers and streams. Science, 361, 585–588. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat0636

Access

filesGRWL V01.01 downloads (Zenodo)

curl -fsSL "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/grwl/links.txt?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  | xargs -n 1 curl -fLO

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record