Rivers and Catchments of Europe - Catchment Characterisation Model (CCM)

Open data API in a single place

Provided by Joint Research Centre

Get early access to Rivers and Catchments of Europe - Catchment Characterisation Model (CCM) API!

Let us know and we will figure it out for you.

Dataset information

Country of origin
Updated
2008.07.01 00:00
Created
2007.06.01
Available languages
English
Keywords
River network, Seaoutlet, catchments, drainage basins, Feature coding
Quality scoring
210

Dataset description

The Catchment Characterisation Model (CCM2) database covers the entire European continent, including the Atlantic islands, Iceland and Turkey. It includes a hierarchical set of river segments and catchments based on the Strahler order, a lake layer and structured hydrological feature codes based on the Pfafstetter system. It allows for analysis from the regional to the continental scale, corresponding to traditional mapping scales of up to 1:500,000. CCM2 covers an area of about 12,000,000 square kilometers and includes more than 2,000,000 primary catchments. These can be aggregated to drainage basins at different hierarchical levels, forming, for example, about 650 river basins of more than 1000 square kilometers. CCM2 further includes a coastline, fully congruent with the river basins, and some 70,000 lakes. The layers are generated from a 100 meters resolution digital terrestrial elevation model. The following layers are available: Seaoutlets: the major river basins, Main drains: the major rivers, Lakes: all surface water larger than 25x25 metres, Coastlines: coast line extracted from Image2000 imagery, River segments: Drainage channels from the primary catchments, Catchments: Primary catchments. This data-set refers to Lakes and River basins.
Build on reliable and scalable technology
Revolgy LogoAmazon Web Services LogoGoogle Cloud Logo
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Some basic informations about API Store ®.

Operation and development of APIs are currently fully funded by company Apitalks and its usage is for free.
Yes, you can.
All important information such as time of last update, license and other information are in response of each API call.
In case of major update that would not be compatible with previous version of API, we keep for 30 days both versions so you will have enough time to transfer to new version. We will inform you about the changes in advance by e-mail.

Didn't find the API you need?

Let us know and we will figure it out for you.

API Store provides access to European Open Data via scalable and reliable REST API interface.
Copyright © 2024. Made with ♥ by Apitalks