Global Dam Tracker: A database of more than 35,000 dams with location, catchment, and attribute information

In this section, we present an overview of the data collection process and demonstrate an application where GDAT is used to calculate dam-induced global surface water changes. The first subsection, “Global Dam Tracker (GDAT),” presents the GDAT database and describes the data sources. The second subsection,“GDAT Use Case,” details our application of GDAT and outlines an algorithm for calculating surface water changes within dam catchment areas.

Global dam tracker (GDAT)

The Global Dam Tracker (GDAT), a database with 35,140 dams in all continents except Antarctica, is an original data…