Geospace Environmental Datasets

GEOSPACE Geospatial Metadata Catalog v1.7.0

This archive documents a comprehensive catalog of geospatial datasets curated for environmental modeling, ecological analysis, and human impact assessment across the continental United States (CONUS). The catalog provides complete metadata and processing capabilities for 165 variables from several data sources:

MODIS Satellite Data (4 variables) Land surface temperature, vegetation indices (NDVI, EVI), and forest cover

ECMWF ERA5 Reanalysis (14 variables) Temperature, precipitation, pressure, humidity, wind components, and atmospheric parameters

GridMET Meteorological Data (17 variables) Climate variables, fire weather indices, drought indicators, and evapotranspiration

CAMS Air Pollution Data (6 variables) PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO, and ground-level ozone from Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service; high-resolution atmospheric composition data for air quality analysis

EPA AQS – US Environmental Protection Agency (7 variables) Air quality data for PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO, O3, and Lead (Pb)

SVI – Social Vulnerability Index (27 variables) Overall vulnerability scores, theme-specific rankings (Socioeconomic, Household, Minority, Housing), and detailed demographic percentiles from CDC/ATSDR

COI – Child Opportunity Index (36 variables) Z-scores, quintiles, and ranks across Education, Health/Environment, and Social/Economic domains at National, State, and Metro norms

PLACES – CDC Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates (40 variables) ZCTA-level health data across 6 categories: Health Outcomes (12), Prevention (9), Health Risk Behaviors (4), Disabilities (7), Health Status (3), and Health-Related Social Needs (5); includes 95% confidence intervals for all measures

FIRMS – NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (16 variables) Active fire detections from MODIS (1km, 2000–present) and VIIRS (375m, 2012–present) satellites; 10 raw detection variables (location, brightness, FRP, confidence) and 6 aggregated summary variables (fire count, FRP statistics, fire days) with spatial aggregation to County/ZCTA/State

Enhanced Features in v1.7.0:

• New FIRMS Module: Download and processing support for NASA FIRMS active fire data via REST API, with multi-sensor support (MODIS, VIIRS S-NPP, NOAA-20/21).
• Spatial Aggregation: Point-to-polygon processing to aggregate raw fire detections to County, ZCTA, or State geographic units.
• Flexible Filtering: Bounding box and date range filtering for targeted fire data downloads.

This catalog serves as both a reference document for researchers and a foundation for the GEOSPACE processing framework, enabling automated download and analysis-ready data preparation across multiple earth observation, climate, atmospheric composition, health, fire, and socioeconomic data sources.