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HydroSHEDS
Hydrographic basins, rivers and drainage products derived from elevation data.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- catchment boundaries · river networks · lakes
- Coverage docs-verified
- Global
- Formats docs-verified
- standard GIS formats (not specified in DOCS)
- Access docs-verified
- Free and freely available; licence not stated in ENTRY or DOCS
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- FRA catchment context: delineate contributing catchment boundaries from HydroSHEDS basins · Drainage strategy: river network and lake layers for receiving-watercourse context · Ecology/BNG baseline: river and lake network mapping for habitat context
- Audience llm-inferred
- hydrologists · flood consultants · drainage engineers · GIS analysts · ecologists
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- HydroSHEDS v2 is released for the Americas; the global v2 (TanDEM-X based) is still in development · Specific resolutions, update cadence and licence terms are not stated in DOCS
- Licence
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- GitHub stars
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- Last commit
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- Last successful page check
- 14/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
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Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · editorial seed