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Datasets



Global Datasets

ZoomEarth | New satellite images every day (Note: Bing Maps provides the high resolution imagery. NASA satellites VIIRS, Aqua and Terra provide the daily imagery. Globe images are captured hourly by DSCOVR.)

 

World Resources Institute | WRI Data Platforms (explore 253 environmental datasets!)

 

World Resources Institute: WRI Planet Pulse, WRI Landsat 1999-2016, WRI Climate Watch

 

Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA)

 

Global Mountain Explorer (GME)

 

Indigenous Mountain Peoples Map (Mountain Partnership, with GMBA) (also here)

 

UN Biodiversity Lab (UNDP, UNEP & CBD; launched in July 2018)

 

ResourceWatch beta - explore global datasets

 

WOCAT – Global database on sustainable land management

 

NOAA Global Climate Data Online

 

Paris Equity Check | How much global warming is each country’s pledge leading to?

 

Regional Datasets

Central Asia
CENTRAL ASIA WATER AND ENERGY DATA PORTAL
PAHAR – Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset

UCA MSRI Geonode

CartOrient  |  Asie occidentale – Caucase – Asie centrale

HKPL Biodiversity datasets from ICIMOD

 

 

Other regions
Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS)
DataAfrica

 

Country Datasets – Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan Spatial
National Statistics Committee
Wild Animals National Database
Reach Initiative
Election Analytic
Air quality in Bishkek

 

Tajikistan
Tajikistan Spatial

 

China
University of Michigan – China
National Bureau of Statistics
World Bank – China

 

Satellite imagery

Free imagery

USGS Earth Explorer

USGS GloVis

CAS Digital Earth

 

Digital Elevation Models

Outerra - 3D planetary engine for seamless planet rendering from space down to the surface

 

GIS data sources

Top 15 free GIS data sources

 

Mapping and Cartography

OSGeo: Mapping and Cartography

Old maps

Old maps online / Cartography of the past

 

Citizen Science projects & apps

Lapis Guides
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