Explore the dataset catalogue
Access a range of data types, essential for robust environmental and climate analyses, from premium and open-access providers. For each dataset, we offer the detailed insights you need — complete with links to scientific research and licensing details — to help you select the right data for your analysis.
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PALSAR(-2) Forest/Non-Forest Map: 3 Class (25m)
Annual forest/non-forest map for most years between 2007 and 2021 from radar data. Suitable for vegetation monitoring and deforestation estimates
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PALSAR(-2) Yearly Mosaic (25m)
Annual global radar imagery for most years between 2007 and 2021. Suitable for estimating forest biomass trends.
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PALSAR-2 ScanSAR (25m)
A normalized SAR backscatter dataset from PALSAR-2 in broad area observation mode with an observation width of 350 km.
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RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017
The RESOLVE Ecoregions dataset, updated in 2017, offers a depiction of the 846 terrestrial ecoregions that represent our living planet.
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SMAP Soil Moisture (11km)
Global 3-hourly, level 4, surface and root zone soil moisture dataset
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SRTM Digital Elevation Data 2000 (90m)
A near-global elevation map. Good for regional analysis of topography or visual hillshading.
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Sentinel-1 SAR GRD
Weekly near-global radar coverage of land surface and coastal zones. Suitable for mapping land cover, cropland classifications, detecting ships and sea ice, forest disturbance, etc.
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Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral
Weekly near-global coverage of visible and infrared data of land surface and coastal zones, with missing data for cloudy areas. Suitable for land cover classification including cropland and forestry.
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Sentinel-2: Cloud Probability
The S2 cloud probability created with the sentinel2-cloud-detector library.
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Sentinel-5P NRTI NO2 – Near Real-Time Nitrogen Dioxide (1.1km)
Near real-time global maps of atmospheric NO2 concentrations.
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Sentinel-5P: Carbon Monoxide (1.1km)
Offline' (not near real-time), high-resolution imagery of CO concentrations, which is useful for exploring combustion of fossil fuels, biomass burning, and atmospheric oxidation of methane and other hydrocarbons.
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Sentinel-5P: Formaldehyde (1.1km)
Offline' (not near real-time), high-resolution imagery of atmospheric formaldehyde (HCHO) concentrations, an intermediate gas in almost all oxidation chains of non-methane volatile organic compounds, leading eventually to carbon dioxide.
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Sentinel-5P: Methane (1.1km)
Offline' (not near real-time), high-resolution imagery of methane concentrations, which is the second most important contributor to the anthropogenically enhanced greenhouse effect after carbon dioxide.
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Sentinel-5P: Nitrogen Dioxide (1.1km)
Offline' (not near real-time), high-resolution imagery of atmospheric NO2 concentrations.
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Sentinel-5P: Sulfur Dioxide (1.1km)
Offline' (not near real-time), high-resolution imagery of atmospheric sulfur dioxide (SO2) concentrations, which plays a role in chemistry on a local and global scale and its impact ranges from short-term pollution to effects on climate.
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Sentinel-5P: UV Aerosol Index (1.1km)
Offline' (not near real-time), high-resolution imagery of the UV Aerosol Index (UVAI), also called the Absorbing Aerosol Index (AAI), which is useful for tracking the evolution of aerosol plumes of dust, ash, or smoke.
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TOMS and OMI Merged Ozone Data (~100km)
The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) data on ~1 degree grid, for use in monitoring global and regional trends in total ozone over the past 25 years.
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USFS Landscape Change Monitoring System (30m)
Change, land cover, and land use outputs from the LCMS data suite with US coverage only for years 1985-2022.
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USGS National Map DEM (10m)
Seamless DEM dataset with full coverage for the continental US states and partial coverage of Alaska, generated with data from 1998-2020.
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VIIRS Stray Light Corrected Nighttime Day/Night Band Composites (500m)
Monthly global map of nighttime lights at 500m from 2014 – present, with a three month delay, with some cloud impact. Can be used as a proxy for population density and development.
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WHRC Pantropical National Level Carbon Stock 2012 (500m)
Map of above-ground live woody biomass at 500m for tropical countries for the year 2012.
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WWF HydroATLAS Basins Level 10
Detailed hydro-environmental information about the world's watersheds at high spatial resolution.
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WWF HydroSHEDS Void-Filled DEM 3 Arc-Seconds (90m)
A near-global elevation map. Good for regional analysis of topography or visual hillshading. This data has been optimised for hydrological studies.
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WorldPop Global Project Population Data (93m)
Population distrubtion for years 2000-2021 with global coverage.
