Published July 15, 2026 | Version 0.2.2

speciesgrids - cloud-optimized gridded dataset of marine species occurrence

Authors/Creators

  • 1. International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), IOC-UNESCO

Description

speciesgrids is a cloud-optimized gridded datasets of WoRMS aligned marine species distributions based on the OBIS and GBIF occurrence snapshots. The dataset is available in GeoParquet and currently supports Geohash and H3 grid output. A Python package is used to generate the speciesgrids product.

Notes

Funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme, Grant Agreement No. 101112823 (DTO-BioFlow). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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Related works

Is derived from
Dataset: 10.15468/dl.ubwn8z (DOI)
Dataset: 10.14284/170 (DOI)
Is required by
https://github.com/iobis/speedy (URL)
Is supplement to
Dataset: https://github.com/iobis/speciesgrids (URL)

Funding

European Commission
DTO-BioFlow - Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean 101112823

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