Esri and Global Partners Release HydroSHEDS v2 for the Americas

Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2 Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2

Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2 For anyone who plans roads, bridges, pipelines, drainage systems or flood defences, the quality of the underlying water map has always set the ceiling on what the analysis can deliver. Rivers, catchment boundaries and the direction water moves across a landscape are the base layer beneath a great deal of infrastructure decision-making, and until recently the most widely used globa…

Esri and Global Partners Release HydroSHEDS v2 for the Americas

REDLANDS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Esri has made HydroSHEDS v2 publicly available for the first time. Confluvio Consulting led the development of the HydroSHEDS v2 foundational dataset in partnership with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Esri, whose geographic information system (GIS) technology will provide users with the data. A major innovation in global hydrographic capabilities, this hydrographic framework is the result of a collaborat…