SWORD - SWOT River Database
The official global river network database underpinning SWOT satellite hydrology products: 213,485 reaches and 10.7 million nodes for rivers wider than 30 m, with width, slope, water-surface elevation and obstruction attributes in NetCDF, GeoPackage and shapefile.
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At a glance
- Region
- United States (Global)
- Coverage
- Global
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Academic
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- river network
- river width
- river reaches/nodes
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Coverage gaps
Find who lacks safe water or sanitation.
Because it has: river network
- 02
Benchmarking
Compare utilities on service and losses.
- 03
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Failure prediction
Predict pipe bursts and plant failures before they happen.
- 02
Demand forecasts
Forecast daily demand for pumping and storage.
- 03
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
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- APDRC GPCP Merged Daily Precipitation v1.1Global | Free
- APDRC NOAA-CIRES-DOE 20th Century Reanalysis V3Global | Free
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