Global

Natural Earth Data

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. “Free for use in any type of project.” Cultural and natural layers suitable for global- and continental- scale mapping and analysis.

• Dams
  • Global Dam Watch
    This organization curates three datasets of current and future dams and reservoirs globally. Originally created by Columbia University’s CIESIN, v1.01 of this dataset is dated 2011.
• Trees
  • Global Canopy Height
    Data available for download here: https://meta-forest-monitoring-okw37.projects.earthengine.app/view/canopyheight
    Tolan et al. (2023). “Sub-meter resolution canopy height maps using self-supervised learning and a vision transformer trained on Aerial and GEDI Lidar”
    Algorithms to reproduced models: https://github.com/facebookresearch/HighResCanopyHeight