Links to useful websites
•Below is a list of relevant web links to river related tools and datasets.
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The River Habitat Survey is a methodology for recording habitat features for wildlife that was designed by the Environment Agency, England and Wales and has since been applied in many other countries. |
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The Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) is a UK community-led approach that engages people and groups from across society to help improve the water environments. It's website has a comprehensive data portal providing access to various UK river related datasets. |
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The UK mapping agency provide a free to use but generalised river network of Great Britain called Open Rivers. A more comprehensive and detailed network is the OS WaterLayer. This product contains a nationally consistent view of Great Britain's watercourses. |
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AMBER is a project seeking to apply adaptive management to the operation of barriers in European rivers to achieve a more effective and efficient restoration of stream connectivity. |
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A web site listing a selection of useful shapefiles in freshwater biodiversity research. |
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You can download global or regional river networks generated from elevation data obtained during a Space Shuttle flight for NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Developed by the World Wildlife Fund in partnership with USGS, CIAT, TNC and CESR. |
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The American national river network. You can download detailed river networks for all States of America. |
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The website where you can download the 1:500K river network of South Africa. |
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The CCM2 database covers the entire European continent, including the Atlantic islands, Iceland and Turkey. It includes a hierarchical set of river segments and catchments based on the Strahler order, a lake layer and structured hydrological feature codes based on the Pfafstetter system. |
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A site hosting links and research material in fluvial geomorphology. Many tools have been made available through the RiverScapes Consortium. |
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A website dedicated to GIS and Hydrology. |
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Code Sharing (formerly ArcScript) website, a huge source of ESRI user community scripts. From here you can follow links to the newer code galleries for ArcGIS 10+ |
