EU-Hydro River Network Database (Copernicus Land via EEA SDI)
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service photo-interpreted pan-European river network with water-body surfaces, catchments and drainage lines for all EEA39 countries, distributed in GDB/GPKG per major basin.
sdi.eea.europa.eu
At a glance
- Region
- EU (Europe)
- Coverage
- Europe (EEA39)
- Access
- Free
- Category
- International
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- river network
- catchments
- water bodies
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: catchments
- 02
Low flows
Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.
- 03
Coverage gaps
Find who lacks safe water or sanitation.
Because it has: river network
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
- 02
Ungauged basins
Combine with catchment data to estimate flow where there is no gauge.
- 03
Failure prediction
Predict pipe bursts and plant failures before they happen.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
EEA GeoNetwork catalogue API/records; bulk basin downloads
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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