Data of Water Resources Distribution in Central Asia- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

This dataset includes inland water data of five countries in the Great Lakes region of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), including the distribution of rivers, canals and lakes. The line and area features of each country are stored in different files. The dataset comes from the Digital Map of the World (DCW), and its main source is the Operational Navigation Map (ONC) 1:1,000,000 scale paper map series of the US Defense Survey and Mapping Agency (DMA) produced by the United States, Australia, Canada and the UK. The DCW database is the most comprehensive global geographic information system database available free of charge since 2006, although it has not been updated since 1992.

File naming and required software

File name: Water area data is stored in shapefile format, the file name is A_water_B_dcw, where A is the abbreviation of the country name (Kazakhstan KAZ, Kyrgyzstan KGZ, Tajikistan TJK, Turkmenistan TKM, Uzbekistan UZB), B is the element shape: line or area.
Data reading method: All data can be opened using ArcGIS and are vector format data.

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Xu, X., Tan, M. (2020). Data of Water Resources Distribution in Central Asia. A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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Support Program

Pan-Third Pole Environment Study for a Green Silk Road-A CAS Strategic Priority A Program (No:XDA20000000)

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