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Archive: Open-data
- The Canadian Space Agency, in collaboration with its partners, has made over 674 000 historical RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of Earth freely available.
- Here is a huge catalog of community-sourced free geospatial datasets made available for use by the larger Google Earth Engine community and shared publicly as Earth Engine assets.
- After much anticipation, USGS Landsat 9 products are now available. Download data via USGS EarthExplorer, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) API, and LandsatLook. Read more about it here.
- Hydrography90m allows to assess freshwater quantity and quality, inundation risk, biodiversity and conservation, as well as resource management objectives in a globally comprehensive manner.
- Looking for some analysis-ready earth observation data for Europe? Here you can find 210GB of cloud/artifact-free Sentinel-2 images at 30m from 2018 to 2020 and available as cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs.
- Microsoft's Bing Maps has released datasets of building footprints around the world. The data is freely available for download. Check here for details.
- Dynamic World provides global, near real-time land cover data at a 10 meter resolution, giving an unprecedented level of detail about what's on the land and how it's being used.
- This book represents up-to-date comprehensive review of theory and techniques to validate land use cover information. Check it out here.
- Here is a global downscaled climate data product spanning multiple downscaling methods (source code included), alongside an interactive mapping tool for inspecting, exploring, and comparing the data.
