What can the new Digital Research Infrastructure offer?

Data

The new FDRI Digital Research Infrastructure is designed to handle a wide range of data types from a variety of sensors and sources.

Timeseries data

Access real-time data from remote sensors, updated as often as every 15 mins.

Geospatial data

Explore high-resolution geospatial data with up to 1m² detail across the UK.

Gridded data

Gain detailed insights from gridded datasets, including rainfall and elevation data.

Image / Video data

Automatically monitor water levels, floodplains, and land cover with image-based data.

Aerial data

Insights from a range of sensors (e.g. LiDAR, infra-red, thermal) mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

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Catchment Data Collections

Collections of data within FDRI catchments, as well as at the national scale, to enhance understanding of floods and droughts, from water companies, citizen scientists and other research monitoring activities

The Upper Severn sub-catchment (red outline), with its network of rainfall sensor sites (dark blue triangles) and river level sensors (light blue circles).

National scale high resolution river flow and level data

A quality controlled and updated dataset of 15-minute river levels and flows from measuring agencies across the UK, and an hourly CAMELS-GB data cube

CAMELS GB →

**LiDAR* Data Management & Tools**

*Light Detection And Ranging

An accessible combined dataset for England and Wales of 1m height data from LiDAR data. Includes web-based tools for processing this for hydrological analysis.