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Bank strength measurements in the Amazon River, September to October 2022

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

These data contain bank strength measurements in a 100 km reach of the Solimões River from Sep/Oct 2022 recorded with a shear vane and a cohesion strength meter. In addition, processed satellite (Landsat) imagery from 1984-2021 was used to calculate erosional and depositional area in three 50-120 km long reaches in the Solimoes River presented here as shape-files. Processed Corona imagery 1967 for a 120 km long reach in the Solimoes River shows the banklines and bar outlines. A spreadsheet provides erosional and depositional area at 20-km sections along the 1,600km of the Solimoes River that were based on measuring floodplain width from a digital elevation model (FABDEM). We also attach a GeoTIFF file of the multibeam echo sounder (MBES) data collected during the field campaign in a 20-km long reach in the Solimoes River Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/11786f86-a3ac-45ab-81b5-10fd157e3d7a

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
11786f86-a3ac-45ab-81b5-10fd157e3d7a
Extent (Latitude)
2.372° to -8.668°
Extent (Longitude)
-68.95° to -57.393°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2024-04-03
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Brückner, M.Z.M., Aalto, R., Best, J., Paes de Almeida, R., Nicholas, A.P., Ashworth, P., Ianniruberto, M. (2024). Bank strength measurements in the Amazon River, September to October 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/11786f86-a3ac-45ab-81b5-10fd157e3d7a
Responsible party
Exeter University (author, pointOfContact); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (author); University of São Paulo (author); University of Brighton (author); University of Brasilia (author); (publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng