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Global vegetation dynamics

vegetation

Annual bias and trend-corrected metrics on intra-annual vegetation dynamics expressed through the NDVI

Global climate classification

climate

High-resolution climate classification following the Koppen-Geiger class cheme.

Range maps of bird species

ecology

Range maps of bird species provided by the Birdlife initiative

Cumulative Basin Metrics (CBM)

climate

Mean values of selected metrics aggregated dow-/upstream

Bias-corrected CCI land cover

land cover

Trend-corrected CCI land cover dataset with annual and global data on per-pixel percentages of 27 classes.

CCI land cover

land cover

Global, yearly land cover derived in the context of the Climate Change Initiative (CCI), from 1992 to the present

CCI land cover history

land cover

Historical maximum extent of generic land cover types derived from the CCI land cover dataset

Annual permafrost extents

climate
geomorphology

Time-series of the extent of permafrost in the northern hemisphere

Global snow cover densities

land cover
climate

Annual time-series on per-pixel proportions of snow cover

Annual soil moisture

climate

Global intra-annual metrics on the variability of soil moisture content from 1978 to the present

Global soil moisture history

climate

Historical metrics on the spatial and temporal variability of soil moisture since 1978

Global high-resolution climate

climate

Global monthly time-series of precipitation and temperature.

Global high-resolution climatologies

climate

Global time-series of climate variables

Global demographic data

sociology

Database on human demography collected at multiple scales, from microdata to national census

Annual nighttime lights

land cover

Global time-series of Nighttime light intensities mapped by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)

Economic indicators

economy

Global database on economic indicators obtained at multiple scales, from microdata to international reports

Annual Fire frequency

land cover
climate

Global time-series on the intra-annual frequency of fires

Global fire regime

land cover
climate

Characterization of the frequency and recurrence of fires

Annual streamflow dynamics

water

Global time-series on the intra-annual variability of the land surface streamflow

Fused vegetation continuous fields

land cover

Annual and global Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) that fuses data from Copernicus, MODIS, and AVHRR

Global administrative boundaries

land managenent

Global database with an up-to-date delineation of administrative areas

Global impervious surfaces

land cover

Annual time-series of impervious surfaces

Reptile range maps

ecology

Global Assessment of Reptile Distributions (GARD)

Global bare land

land cover

High-resolution map of the global extent of bare land as of 2010