Data
Map viewers
| Product | Description | Application | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoilGrids | global soil information (gridded 250 m; C, N, bulk density, texture ...) from ISRIC | map viewer, data downloader | CC-BY 4.0 |
| ESA CCI land cover | global land cover (gridded 300 m) | map viewer | |
| Global Forest Watch (GFW) | global forest cover (gridded) | map viewer, analyzer | |
| Global Surface Water Explorer (GSWE) | global surface water (gridded) | map viewer, analyzer | |
| Copernicus Browser | ESA Sentinel EO browser (search, analyze, download satellite products) | map viewer, analyzer, data downloader | |
| EOX cloudless S2 | global cloudless ESA S2 satellite mosaic images | map viewer, data downloader | |
| USGS National Map | US national map data viewer | map viewer, analyzer, data downloader |
XYZ map tiles
| Product | Description | Application | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| XYZ tile providers | list of XYZ map tiles (e.g., for QGIS or leaflet) | XYZ tiles, map viewer |
ESRI World Topo
https://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}.png
ESRI World Satellite Imagery
https://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}.png
USGS Topo
https://basemap.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/USGSTopo/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}.png
Global Surface Water (GSW)
https://storage.googleapis.com/global-surface-water/tiles2021/transitions/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
WMS / WMTS tiles
USGS Topo
https://basemap.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/USGSTopo/MapServer/WMTS/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml
GADM
https://data-gis.unep-wcmc.org/server/rest/services/GADM_EEZ_Layer/MapServer/WMTS/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml
OSM and SRTM30
https://ows.terrestris.de/osm/service?VERSION=1.1.1
ArcticDEM
https://di-pgc.img.arcgis.com/arcgis/services/arcticdem_latest/ImageServer/WMSServer
Data
| Product | Description | Application | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Dynamic Land Cover | global annual land cover fractions from CLMS (gridded 100 m) | land cover | |
| SoilGrids | global gridded soil information from ISRIC (C, N, bulk density, texture ...) | soil properties | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Dai et al. (2025): coastline database | global high resolution coastline database from satellite imagery (2009 - 2023) (gridded 2 m) |
Data repositories and APIs
| Tool | Description | Application | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zenodo | open-access repository for research data, software, publications, and other scientific outputs | ||
| Pangaea | |||
| DataONE | |||
| Climate Data Store (CDS) | |||
| STAC APIs | a list of STAC APIs and Static Catalogs | ||
| EODAG | Earth Observation Data Access Gateway (EODAG) to simplify searching for and downloading EO data, available as CLI and Python API |