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ALOS Global Digital Surface Model
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Aquamaps
Aqueduct Global Flood Risk Maps
Aqueduct Global Maps 2.0
Aqueduct Global Maps 2.1 Data
ArcticDEM
Areas of global significance for conservation
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Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset
ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model
ASTER Global Emissivity Dataset 100 meter HDF5
ASTER Global Water Bodies Database
Atlas of the Biosphere
AW3D Enhanced
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Bathymetry
BioFRESH
Biomass carbon density
Bioregions 2020 Framework
Bleaching observations (1963-2010)
Blue Marble Next Generation
Business Activity Trends
Capitaine European Train Stations
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Catchment Characterisation and Modelling
CHELSA Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas
CLDR Project
CleanTOPO2
Climate Analysis Indicators Tool
Climatological Database for the World's Oceans
Coastal Water Quality
Coastline
Colocation Maps
Commuting Zones
Copernicus CORINE Land Cover
Copernicus EEA-10 Digital Elevation Model
Copernicus GLO-30 Digital Elevation Model
Copernicus GLO-90 Digital Elevation Model
Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers: CGLS-LC100 Collection 3
Corine Land Cover Map
Crop Calendar Dataset
Crop Calendar GIS
Cross-blended Hypsometric Tints
CRU Climate Datasets
Cshapes
CSP gHM: Global Human Modification
Cultural Building Blocks – 10m
Datasets from the United Nations Environment Programme
Digital Chart of the World
Displacement Maps
DIVA-GIS Country Data
Downscaled GCM Portal
Dynamic World V1
Earth Gravitational Model 1984
Earth Gravitational Model 2008
Earth Gravitational Model 2020
Earth Gravitational Model 96
EarthEnv Freshwater Ecosystems Data
EarthEnv Freshwater Ecosystems Environmental Information
EarthEnv Global Cloud Cover Climatology
EarthEnv Global Consensus Land Cover
EarthEnv Global Consensus Landcover
EarthEnv Global Digital Elevation Model
EarthStat
Ecoregions 2017
Electrical Distribution Grid Maps
ERS/MetOp Soil Moisture
ESA WorldCover 10m v100
ESPON Grid Data
ESPON Urban Morphological Data
ETOPO 2022
ETOPO1
ETOPO2v2
ETOPO5
Europe in the World
European Climate Assessment and Dataset
European Digital Elevation Model
European Urban Morphological Zones
Forest and Buildings removed Copernicus DEM
Forest GIS
Free World Cities Database
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
G-Econ
GADM database of Global Administrative Areas
GAR15
GEBCO 2021 derived contour lines
GEBCO 2021 derived contour polys
GEBCO 2021 derived raster classification
General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans 2021
General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans 2022
Geographic lines
GeoHive
GeoIP2 Country Database
GeoIP2 Downloadable Databases
geojson.xyz
GeoLite Legacy Downloadable Databases
GeoLite2 ASN (Autonomous System Number)
GeoLite2 City
GeoLite2 Country
GeoLite2 Free Downloadable Databases
Geonames Country Information
GeoNames
GeoNetwork
Geospatial Conservation Atlas
GFSAD1000: Cropland Extent 1km Multi-Study Crop Mask, Global Food-Support Analysis Dat
GISTPortal
Glaciated Areas
GLC-SHARE
GLIMS 2021: Global Land Ice Measurements From Space
GlobAerosol
Global 200 Ecoregions
Global 200 Freshwater
Global 200 Marine
Global 200 Terrestrial
Global Aerosol Climatology Project
Global Agricultural Lands
Global Agriculture Lands
Global Carbon Storage in Soils
Global Climate Monitor
Global Data Lab
Global Food Security-Support Analysis Data at 30 m (GFSAD)
Global Forest Change 2000-2014
Global Habitat Heterogeneity
Global High-Resolution Geomorphometric Layers
Global High Resolution Soil Water Balance
Global Hotspots
Global Human Settlement Layer
Global Irrigated Area and Rainfed Crops Areas
Global Irrigated Area Map
Global Lakes and Wetlands Database
Global Land Cover by National Mapping Organisations
Global Land Use Dataset
Global map of Local Climate Zones
Global Map of Threat of Blast or Poison Fishing
Global Map
Global Multi-Resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010
Global Multi-Resolution Topography Data Synthesis
Global PALSAR-2/PALSAR Forest/Non-Forest Map
Global Potential Evapotranspiration and Aridity Index
Global Power Plant Database
Global Reservoir and Dam Database
Global Reservoir and Dam
Global River Classification
Global River Widths from Landsat
Global Roads Open Access Data Set
Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project
Global Seismic Hazard Map
Global Solar Atlas
Global SRTM Topographic Diversity
Global Terrorism Database
Global Topography
Global Urban Extent
Global Urban Footprint 2011
Global Urban Footprint
Global Volcanoes
Global Wind Atlas
GlobCover: Global Land Cover Map
GLOBCOVER
GLOBE
Google Maps Gallery
Grassland GIS
Graticules
Gray Earth
Gridded climatic data for North America, South America and Europe
Gridded Population of the World
GRUMP Settlement Points
GSHHG
GSHHS
GTOPO30
Harmonized World Soil Database
High Resolution Population Density Maps
High Resolution Settlement Layer
Historic Croplands Dataset, 1700-1992
Historical Tsunami Database
History Database of the Global Environment
Human impact on forests
Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
Human Influence and Footprint
Human pressures
Humanitarian Response Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry
Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model, Sea Surface Elevation
HydroATLAS
HydroBASINS
HydroFALLS
HydroLAKES
HydroRIVERS
HydroSHEDS Core layers
HydroSHEDS
HydroWASTE
IBTrACS
Inclusive Internet Index
Infrastructure Route Study
International Peace Information Service
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
IPUMS International
IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
JRC Travel Time to Major Cities
JRC Water Portal
Koordinates
Lakes + Reservoirs
Land Cover Map
Land
Landsat 1-5 MSS
Landsat 4 TM
Landsat 5 TM
Landsat 7 ETM+
Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS
Landsat 9 OLI-2/TIRS-2
Large Urban Areas 1950-2050
Lifemapper
Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity Dataset
Major Watersheds of the World Deliniation
Manual Shaded Relief of Contiguous US
MapCruzin
Marine Ecoregions of the World
Marine Protected Areas in Coral Reef Regions of the World
Maritime Boundaries
MERIT Hydro: Global Hydrography Datasets
MERIT Hydro: Supplementary Visualization Layers
Microsoft Building Footprints
Mineral Resources Data System
Minor Islands
MODIS Fire Detection Data
MODIS Global Land Cover
MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500 m SIN Grid
Movement Maps
Movement Range Maps
Multi-Error-Removed Improved-Terrain DEM
Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent
NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Global 1 arc second V003
NASADEM
Natural Disaster Hazards
Natural Disaster Hotspots
Natural Earth 1
Natural Earth 2
Natural Earth - Raster
Natural Earth - Vector
Natural Earth
NCAR GIS Climate Change Scenarios
NED 2, 1, 1/3rd, 1/9th Arc Second DEM
Net Primary Productivity
Network Coverage Maps
NGIS Country Files
NOAA Historical Hurricane Tracks
North Sea Oil Offshore Maps and GIS - Dutch sector
North Sea Oil Offshore Maps and GIS - English sector
North Sea Oil Offshore Maps and GIS - Netherland sector
NSIDC Frozen Ground maps
Ocean Bottom
Ocean
OneGeology Portal
Open Flights
OpenAerialMap
OpenLandMap
OpenStreetMap
Operational Navigation Chart Series
Orrbodies Geology maps
OSM Metro Extracts
OSM
Oxford MAP: Malaria Atlas Project Fractional International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Landcover
PALSAR Forest/Non-Forest map
Parks and Protected Lands
Peace Research Institute Oslo
Physical Building Blocks – 10m
Physical Labels
Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Forest Ecosystems
Playas
POI Factory
Populated Places
Population Maps
Portland lidar DEM
Ports
Potential Clean Water Provision
Potential Natural Vegetation
Protected areas
Protected Planet
Railroads
Randolph Glacier Inventory
Rarity-weighted richness
Realized clean water provision
ReefBase GIS
Reefs
Relative Wealth Index
Rivers + lake centerlines
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SALB
Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring
Shaded Relief
Shipping Activity
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SimpleGeo's Places
Smart Infrastructure Planner (beta)
Social Capital Atlas
Social Connectness Index
SoilGrids
Species richness
SRTM 90m Digital Elevation Database
SRTM DEM
SRTM - Resampled SRTM
SRTM
SRTM15+: GLOBAL BATHYMETRY AND TOPOGRAPHY AT 15 ARCSECONDS
SRTM15+
SRTM30_PLUS: SRTM30, COASTAL & RIDGE MULTIBEAM, ESTIMATED TOPOGRAPHY
Standard Time Zones of the World
TanDEM-X
Terrainmap
Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World
Terrestrial habitat types
The Biodiversity Hotspots
Threatened species richness
Tiger Conservation Landscape data and report
Timezone Boundary Builder
Timezones
Total vulnerable carbon density
Travel Patterns
Tropical Coral Reefs of the World (500-m resolution grid)
tz database
TZ Timezones
UMD GLC
Undersea Telecommunications Cables
UNEP GEOdata
UNEP WCMC
Uppsala Conflict Data Programme - Georeferenced Event Database
Urban Areas
USGS Earthquakes Database
USGS Land Cover Institute
Vegetation Map at Last Glacial Maximum
Viewfinderpanoramas Digital Elevation Model (DEM) repository
VLIZ Maritime Boundaries
VMAP00
VMAP01
VMAP02
Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide deposits
Vulnerable soil organic carbon density
Water Isotopes
World Atlas TopoJSON
World Bank Geodata
World Borders
World Cities Database Free Edition
World Grassland Types
World Magnetic Model 2020
World Ocean Database
World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Center
World Port Index
World Settlement Footprint 2015
World Spatial Database of Protected Areas
World Time Zones, 1:10 million (2012)
World Time Zones (Combined)
World Time Zones
World Timezones
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WWF World Ecoregions
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MODIS Global Land Cover
1km and 4km resolution global land cover maps derived from MODIS images.