Monitoring networks and datasets
Buildings and Settlements
Global Permanent Monitoring Networks
Global (original) reference data sets
Global compilations of data sets
Elevation and Depth
Global Permanent Monitoring Networks
Global (original) reference data sets
Global compilations of data sets
Geology and Soils
Global Permanent Monitoring Networks
Global (original) reference data sets
Global compilations of data sets
Fine Root Ecology Database: FRED (compilation)
Description: Originally a plant root database but also contains some soil laboratory data and soil observations. Fully documented in Iversen et al. (2017).
- π Project website: https://roots.ornl.gov/
- π Data download URL: https://doi.org/10.25581/ornlsfa.014/1459186
- π Data license: https://roots.ornl.gov/guidelines/
- π Iversen, C. M., McCormack, M. L., Powell, A. S., Blackwood, C. B., Freschet, G. T., Kattge, J., β¦ & Violle, C. (2017). A global FineβRoot Ecology Database to address belowβground challenges in plant ecology. New Phytologist, 215(1), 15-26.
- π Unique locations:
- π Unique complete rows: 150,000
- π Tutorials & documentation: https://roots.ornl.gov/guidelines/
Global database of soil nematodes
Description: Raw soil nematode abundance data (6,825 samples) compiled by a large coalition of soil scientists / ecologists (Hoogen et al. 2020).
- π Project website:
- π Data download URL: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4718003
- π° Data license: CC-BY-SA
- π van den Hoogen, J., Geisen, S., Wall, D. H., Wardle, D. A., Traunspurger, W., de Goede, R. G., β¦ & Crowther, T. W. (2020). A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition. Scientific data, 7(1), 103.
- π Unique locations: 1,933 (1-km)
- π Unique complete rows:
- π Tutorials & documentation:
Land Cover and Land Use
Global Permanent Monitoring Networks
Global Land Cover Estimation (GLanCE) training data
Description: Global Land Cover Estimation (GLanCE) project project provides almost 2M training points covering from years 1984 to 2020) (Stanimirova et al. 2023).
- π Project website: https://sites.bu.edu/measures/
- π Data download URL: https://doi.org/10.34911/rdnt.x4xfh3
- π Data license: CC-BY
- π Stanimirova, R., Tarrio, K., Turlej, K., McAvoy, K., Stonebrook, S., Hu, K. T., β¦ & Friedl, M. A. (2023). A global land cover training dataset from 1984 to 2020. Scientific Data, 10(1), 879.
- π Unique locations: 2 million
- π Unique complete rows: +20 million
- π Tutorials & documentation: https://sites.bu.edu/measures/tools/
Global (original) reference data sets
Globe230k
Description: Globe230k is a benchmark dataset for Global Land Cover Mapping which includes cca 230,000 annotated images with a size of 512 Γ 512 and a spatial resolution of 1-m (Shi et al. 2023).
- π Project website:
- π Data download URL: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8429199
- π° Data license: CC-BY
- π Shi, Q., He, D., Liu, Z., Liu, X., & Xue, J. (2023). Globe230k: A Benchmark Dense-Pixel Annotation Dataset for Global Land Cover Mapping. Journal of Remote Sensing, 3, 0078.
- π Unique locations: 6,500
- π Unique complete rows: +1 billion
- π Tutorials & documentation:
Global compilations of data sets
Population Distribution
Global Permanent Monitoring Networks
Global (original) reference data sets
Global compilations of data sets
Water
Global Permanent Monitoring Networks
Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
Description: Collection of marine species occurrence records from original and 3rd party sources GBIF, FishBASE (Global Information System on Fishes) and similar (Moudrα»³ and Devillers 2020).
- π Project website: https://obis.org/
- π Data download URL: https://obis.org/data/access/
- π Data license: https://manual.obis.org/access
- π MoudrΓ½, V., & Devillers, R. (2020). Quality and usability challenges of global marine biodiversity databases: An example for marine mammal data. Ecological Informatics, 56, 101051.
- π Unique locations:
- π Unique complete rows: +57 million records
- π Tutorials & documentation: https://manual.obis.org/access
Global streamflow time series data (GRDC)
Description: Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) collected 35 years of monthly and daily river discharge data from cca 11,000 permanent stations (Burek and Smilovic 2023).
- π Project website: https://www.bafg.de/GRDC/
- π Data download URL: https://portal.grdc.bafg.de/applications/public.html
- π° Data license: No commercial use of the data / No distribution of the entire database
- π Burek, P., & Smilovic, M. (2023). The use of GRDC gauging stations for calibrating large-scale hydrological models. Earth System Science Data, 15(12), 5617-5629.
- π Unique locations: 10,739
- π Unique complete rows: +1 million records
- π Tutorials & documentation: https://github.com/iiasa/CWATM_grdc_calibration_stations/
Global (original) reference data sets
Global compilations of data sets
Physical Infrastructure
Global Permanent Monitoring Networks
Global (original) reference data sets
Global compilations of data sets
Climate
Global Permanent Monitoring Networks
NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day (GSOD)
Description: Contains daily data from over 9000 stations (data from 1973 to the present) on Mean temperature (.1 Fahrenheit) Mean dew point (.1 Fahrenheit) Mean sea level pressure (.1 mb) Mean station pressure (.1 mb) Mean visibility (.1 miles) Mean wind speed (.1 knots) Maximum sustained wind speed (.1 knots) Maximum wind gust (.1 knots) Maximum temperature (.1 Fahrenheit) Minimum temperature (.1 Fahrenheit) Precipitation amount (.01 inches) Snow depth (.1 inches) Indicator for occurrence of: Fog, Rain or Drizzle, Snow or Ice Pellets, Hail, Thunder and similar.
- π Project website: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/global-surface-summary-of-the-day-gsod/
- π Data download URL: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/global-summary-of-the-day/archive/
- π° Data license:
- π Sparks, A. H., Hengl, T., & Nelson, A. (2017). GSODR: global summary daily weather data in R. Journal of open source software, 2(10), 177.
- π Unique locations: +9000
- π Unique complete rows:
- π Tutorials & documentation: https://docs.ropensci.org/GSODR/
Climate TRACE
Description: Climate TRACE provides an inventory of major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions around the world and provides independently produced estimates of how much each emits (points and polygons) (Whitmee, Anton, and Haines 2023).
- π Project website: https://climatetrace.org/
- π Data download URL: https://climatetrace.org/data/
- π Data license: https://roots.ornl.gov/guidelines/
- π Whitmee, S., Anton, B., & Haines, A. (2023). Accountability for carbon emissions and health equity. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 101(2), 83.
- π Unique locations: 352 million emitting assets
- π Unique complete rows: +1 billion
- π Tutorials & documentation: https://api.climatetrace.org/v4/swagger/