GLHYMPS - Global Hydrogeology Maps of Permeability and Porosity
High-resolution global maps of subsurface permeability and porosity (avg polygon ~100 km2) used widely in groundwater modelling, downloadable as a 1.1 GB geodatabase under CC-BY 4.0 from the Borealis repository.
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At a glance
- Region
- Canada (Global)
- Coverage
- Global
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Academic
- Last updated
- 2014
What's inside
- Permeability
- Porosity
- Hydrogeology
- Geodatabase
- GIS
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Trend hotspots
Find where water tables are falling year after year.
Because it has: Hydrogeology
- 02
Recharge planning
Site recharge structures and new borewells with evidence.
- 03
Water budgets
Estimate draft and recharge for a block, district or basin.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Gap filling
Rebuild missing well readings from neighbours, rainfall and season.
- 02
Level forecasts
Forecast pre- and post-monsoon levels well by well.
- 03
Stress mapping
Combine wells with satellite gravity and rainfall to map aquifer stress.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Dataverse Data Access API for programmatic file download
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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