North American River Width Data Set (NARWidth v.0.1)

NARWidth v.0.1 contains 6.7 million georeferenced measurements of river width at mean discharge >=30 m and an additional 1.3 million flagged width measurements of reservoirs and lakes that are connected to the fluvial network. The data set includes measurements of rivers above 60°N, where high-quality river centerline and width data are largely unavailable, but excludes very large lakes (e.g., the Great Lakes), ephemeral streams, deltaic systems, and human-made canals. Additionally, NARWidth includes a braiding index field, defined as the number of channels at each river cross section. The braiding index only includes river channels wider than 30 m, a limitation imposed by the spatial resolution of Landsat imagery....

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Landsat, NARWidth, North American Rivers, River width, hydrology