GeoResource Collection

A collection of useful data or tools in learning of earth science ;)

Open Access Data

1. Climate Data

1.1 weather station records

• Climate Data Online NOAA - An online portal that contains the collection of meteorological data from global weather stations.
• GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (v4) - Global station network data from NASA.
• SMHI - Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute provides detailed long-term monitoring data.
• Tarfala Research Station
  • Meteorological record of weather station at Tarfala Research Station, Stockholm University. Mass balance record of Storglaciären can be found at Bolin Center for Climate Research. The data was processed and used in my master thesis cold surface layer dynamics of Storglaciaren

1.2 Assimulated Global Climatic data

• GLDAS NOAH
  • Global Land Data Assimilation System ingests satellite and ground-based observational data products (0.25 arc degree).
  • The data can be downloaded mannually or automatically by a tool.
  • Google Earth Engine also has access to the data. I have done a practice to convert the units and display the global monthly/annual precipitation and temperature.
• Sea Surface Temperature
  • Smith and Reynolds NCDC Level 4 Historical Reconstructed Sae Surface Temperature Monthly Data.
• WorldClim
  • Provides climatic variables at a global scale with a high spatial resolution (1km^2).
  • Also includes data of future spectrums by different earth system models and historical climatic features by different models and records.
  • This data is available in Google Earth Engine.

2. Other

• Hurrican path
  • International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) gives us hurrican tracks in csv/netcdf/shapefile formats.
  • National Hurricane Center
• Humanitarian Data
  • ACLEDThe Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
  • HDX Humanitarian Data Exchange
• Accessibilities to city centers
  • Published in 2018, a paper in Nature named "A global map of travel time to cities to access inequalities in accessibility in 2015" (DOI: 10.1038/nature25181), showed a map counting how long would it take, at any place on the earth, to the nearest city center.
  • This data is also availabe in Google Earth Engine.
• Global Cell Tower, plotly also has a dashboard on github.
• awesome public datasets

Useful tools/software

3.1 Google Earth Engine

• earthengine-py-notebooks, RGEE, geemap
• gee-community
• fun with gee - Personal practice templates :)
• earth map by FAO

3.2 Python

• rasterio - library for processing raster data
• geopandas - library for vector data
• Other geospatial data visualization: Altair, plotly, geoviews, cartopy, earthpy, vaex
• Introduction to Python GIS - quick start course
• machine learning with python - Very useful learning resource. It also provides basic introduction of scipy libraries. Beginner friendly. 👍
• Jake Vanderplas on GitHub
• Fun with Python for Geodata - personal practice, under development :)

3.3 R library

• SPEI
  • Standard Precipitation and Evaportranspiration Index: point scale, spatial scale. https://spei.csic.es/ A useful and reliable drought index.

3.4 Matlab

• Efficient subpixel image registration by cross-correlation
  • A powerful tool to achieve high precision sub-pixel image registration. 👍
• ImGRAFT
  • An Image Georectification and Feature Tracking toolbox. This is where I started the glacier surge project. Personally I learned a lot from it. 🏔️ 👍
• Arctic Mapping Tools, Antarctic Mapping tools by Chad Greene
• Fun with MATLAB - personal practice, under development :)

3.5 VS code editor extension

• Code Runner: run your code by a simple click, supports almost all major programing languages (however, matlab is not included)
• SandDance for VSCode: interesting tool for quick visualization of your data, like power bi.
• LaTeX Workshop, Python, Anaconda Extension Pack, docs-markdown

3.6 ENVI/IDL

• COSI-CORR - Tools for displacement tracking. 👍

3.7 Other

• Awesome GIS - The most comprehensive GIS list. 👍
• Geofolio - Quick tool to check the climate, landcover and other land surface conditions at your study area.
• Google Dataset Search - A platform to search for dataset.
• WUR Geoscripting - Geoscripting course from Wageningen University
• OpenDroneMap - An open source tool for processing drone images.
• QGIS - A user-friendly processing platform with basic tools.

Hope this will make our life easier. Feel free to share your collection of data and comment.

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