10.18710/CEY9QR Seland, Eivind Heldaas Eivind Heldaas Seland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9849-5053 University of Bergen DataverseNO 2019 Arts and Humanities Earth and Environmental Sciences Hydrology Syrian Desert Water Near East History University of Bergen University of Bergen University of Bergen Seland, Eivind Heldaas Eivind Heldaas Seland University of Bergen 2019-10-14 2019-10-25 2023-09-28 GIS-data 10.18710/CEY9QR/DIIAVE 10.18710/CEY9QR/28KD8E 10.18710/CEY9QR/4ZCVOA 10.18710/CEY9QR/DIWRGS 10.18710/CEY9QR/FY5UY3 10.18710/CEY9QR/FY7HT0 10.18710/CEY9QR/IXB6UC 10.18710/CEY9QR/ZG2VAQ 10.18710/CEY9QR/9HOU7X 10.18710/CEY9QR/HROE7V 470652 585673 114343 4637803 67146 782859 663240 88452 1572 151518 1497 application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml application/pdf application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml application/gml+xml application/gml+xml application/gml+xml text/plain application/gml+xml text/plain 2.1 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The dataset gives the location of 2236 water sources in the Syrian Desert, which were identified on Soviet topographic maps originally printed in 1980. These consist of 853 pools/reservoirs/cisterns, 1061 small wells, 119 large wells and 203 springs, and represent a complete coverage of the study area. Data is presented in Keyhole Markup Language-format for direct usage, refinement and editing in most GIS-software. Google Earth Professional, 7.3.2.5776 Syrian Arab Republic, Syrian Desert, Iraq, Syrian Desert, Jordan, Syrian Desert, 35.50 45.00 31.33 36.00