Global 30m Height Above the Nearest Drainage¶

Or get it from https://gena.users.earthengine.app/view/global-hand

Use the following credit when these data are cited:

Donchyts, Gennadii, Hessel Winsemius, Jaap Schellekens, Tyler Erickson, Hongkai Gao, Hubert Savenije, and Nick van de Giesen. "Global 30m Height Above the Nearest Drainage (HAND)",
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-17445-3, 2016, EGU General Assembly (2016).

Earth Engine Snippet¶

var hand30_100 = ee.ImageCollection("users/gena/global-hand/hand-100").mosaic()
var hand30_1000 = ee.Image("users/gena/GlobalHAND/30m/hand-1000")
var hand90_1000 = ee.Image("users/gena/GlobalHAND/90m-global/hand-1000")

Resolutions¶

30 and 90 - cell resolution, 100 and 1000 - number of river head threshold cells

Sample Code: https://code.earthengine.google.com/ed75ecef7fcf94897b74ac56bfbb3f43

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Source and Curated by: Donchyts/Deltares

Keywords: Global Hand, Hydrology, drainage

Last updated: ~2017