Arc Hydro
Free
Esri's free hydrology framework for ArcGIS Pro — terrain preprocessing and the data model behind many agency workflows.
HydroSHEDS
ActiveThe global hydrography reference — basins, river networks, lakes and hydro-environmental attributes, free.
by WWF / HydroSHEDS consortium
- Pricing
- Free
- License
- Free for all uses (attribution required)
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- GIS data, Any GIS
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
About HydroSHEDS
HydroSHEDS is the dataset family that global water analysis is built on: hydrologically conditioned DEM derivatives, the HydroBASINS nested basin hierarchy, HydroRIVERS river networks, HydroLAKES, and the HydroATLAS attribute compendium that attaches hundreds of hydro-environmental variables to every basin and reach. Led by WWF with academic partners, it is freely available for commercial and non-commercial use alike.
For engineers it answers the recurring "what's upstream" questions at screening scale — basin boundaries for a desk study, river networks for routing setups, lake volumes for water balance — anywhere on earth, in minutes. (Note the naming coincidence only: this directory's working title has nothing to do with it.)
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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