DOCUMENT
GDW_TechDoc_v1_0.pdf (699.5 kB)
ARCHIVE
GDW_v1_0_gdb.zip (54.81 MB)
ARCHIVE
GDW_v1_0_shp.zip (66.51 MB)
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Global Dam Watch database version 1.0
dataset
posted on 2024-07-25, 03:55 authored by Bernhard LehnerBernhard Lehner, Penny Beames, Mark Mulligan, Christiane Zarfl, Luca De Felice, Arnout van Soesbergen, Michele Thieme, Carlos Garcia de Laeniz, Mira Anand, Barbara Belletti, Kate Brauman, Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley, Kimberly Lyon, Lisa Mandle, Nick Mazany-Wright, Mathis Messager, Tamlin Pavelsky, Jean-Francois Pekel, Jida Wang, Qingke Wen, Marcus Wishart, Tianqi Xing, Xiao Yang, Jonathan HigginsThis is the Global Dam Watch (GDW) database of river barriers and reservoirs, version 1.0. The database development is fully described in Lehner et al. 2024 (see DOI-link in References below).
There are 2 zip files (one in Geodatabase format and one in Shapefile format):
- "GDW_v1_0_gdb.zip" contains both river barriers (points) and reservoirs (polygons) including all attribute information, in Geodatabase format
- "GDW_v1_0_shp.zip" contains both river barriers (points) and reservoirs (polygons) including all attribute information, in Shapefile format; additionally there is a comma delimited text file containing all barrier attributes
Each of the zip-files contains a Technical Documentation (GDW_TechDoc_v1_0.pdf) which provides additional information. The GDW database is maintained by the Global Dam Watch initiative, see https://www.globaldamwatch.org.
