CBS Open Data Portal

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Netherlands

Resource Description

Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) open data portal for official national statistics of the Netherlands.

KNMI Data Platform

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Netherlands

Resource Description

Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI) data platform to find and download weather, climate, and earthquake data for the Netherlands.

USDA Geospatial Data Gateway

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences

Geographic Coverage:

North America

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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Geospatial Data Gateway provides a web based access to National Agriculture Inventory Program (NAIP) RGB and NIR 1 meter data and SSURGO soil survey data. There are some other aggregated datasets also available from other organizations.

Microsoft US Building Footprints

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

North America

Resource Description

Microsoft Bing Maps AI generated building footprints of the United States in the GeoJSON format.

Geofabrik Open Street Map Extracts

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

This download page provides regular Open Street Map (OSM) extracts available for download for the entire world in the .pbf vector format and at smaller geometries in the shapefile format.

AHN-Viewer

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Netherlands

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Actueel Hoogtebestaand Nederland (AHN) LiDAR data viewer and download page. You can download point clouds, digital terrain models (DTMs), and digital surface models (DSMs) from AHN missions 1, 2, 3, and 4.

PODK

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Netherlands

Resource Description

PDOK is a data server and download site for the Netherlands run and managed by Kadaster

USGS National Map

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

North America

Resource Description

United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Map is the GIS data source for basic topographic mapping of the United States.

Noteable datasets:

Historic and Georeferenced Topographic Maps in PDF and GeoTIFF formats
Hydrological shapefiles and geodatabases
LiDAR derived elevation tiles
National Elevation Dataset (NED) elevation tiles
LiDAR Point Clouds
Glossary of Geographic Names

USGS Earth Explorer

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Account Required

Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) EarthExplorer is a portal primarily for US data, but international data can also be found.

Some highlighted datasets available are:

Fully searchable Level 1 and Level 2 imagery since the beginning from each successful Landsat mission
Landsat 1
Landsat 2
Landsat 3
Landsat 4
Landsat 5
Landsat 7
Landsat 8
1m Red, Green, Blue, and Near-Infrared NAIP imagery for the whole US
Historic aerial photo frames archive dating back to the early 20th century for most of the US and some other countries
EO-1 Advanced Land Imager (ALI) and Hyperion hyperspectral imagery available globally
Global Land Use and Land Cover

ESA Copernicus SciHub Sentinel Data Platform

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Account Required

Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

SciHub is the European Space Agency’s portal to Sentinel satellite program data.

From here you can download data and find information on

Sentinel 1 Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR)
Sentinel 2 Optical Imagery at 10m, 20m, and 60m resolutions
Sentinel 3 Daily Global Climate and Weather Imaging
Sentinel 5 Atmospheric Monitoring

Dutch Oil and Gas Portal (NLOG)

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Netherlands

Resource Description

This website provides information about energy and minerals in the deep subsurface of the Netherlands and the Dutch continental shelf. This information includes the detection and extraction of natural gas, oil and geothermal energy.

TNO – Geological Service Netherlands manages NLOG on behalf of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate.

European Integrated Data Archive

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences

Geographic Coverage:

Netherlands, Europe, Worldwide

Resource Description

EIDA, an initiative within ORFEUS, is a distributed federation of datacenters established to securely archive seismic waveform data and metadata gathered by European research infrastructures, and provide transparent access to data for the geosciences research communities. EIDA’s organization and management is handled by the EIDA Management Board. The EIDA nodes are data centres that collect and archive data from seismic networks deploying broad-band sensors, short period sensors, accelerometers, infrasound sensors, and other geophysical instruments.

EarthChem

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Account Required

Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

EarthChem provides open data services to the geochemical, petrological, mineralogical, and related communities. Services include data preservation, discovery, access, and visualization.

Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure (ACTRiS)

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

The ACTRIS Data Centre web portal allows you to search, analyse and download atmospheric composition data produced within ACTRIS. Additionally, you can identify data from a multitude of other relevant data archives through a single user interface. For some of the data archives, the interface furthermore allows you to download data.

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)

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Relevant Departments:

Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Europe

Resource Description

The Integrated Carbon Observation System, ICOS provides standardised and open data from more than 140 measurement stations across 13 European countries. The stations observe greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere as well as carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, the land surface and the oceans. Thus, ICOS is rooted in three domains: Atmosphere, Ecosystem and Ocean.

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Netherlands, Europe

Resource Description

NWO-NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research is the national oceanographic institute and principally performs and promotes academically excellent multidisciplinary fundamental and frontier applied marine research addressing important scientific and societal questions pertinent to the functioning of oceans and seas. NIOZ serves as national marine research facilitator (NMF) for The Netherlands scientific community.

European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory (EMSO)

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Europe

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Atmospheric Dynamics Research Infrastructure in Europe (ARISE)

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Europe

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ARISE combines for the first time international networks with complementary technologies such as infrasound, lidar, airglow, radar systems, ionospheric observations and satellites. This joint network provides advanced data products used as benchmarks for weather forecast models. The ARISE network also allows enhanced and detailed observations of other extreme events in the Earth system, such as erupting volcanoes, magnetic storms, tornadoes and tropical thunderstorms, for a better understanding of underlying physical processes and future monitoring for civil applications.

PANGAEA

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Europe, Antarctica, Worldwide

Resource Description

The information system PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the hosting institutions.

Most of the data are freely available and can be used under the terms of the license mentioned on the data set description. A few password protected data sets are under moratorium from ongoing projects. The description of each data set is always visible and includes the principle investigator (PI) who may be asked for access.

Magnetic Information Consortium (MagIC)

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

The Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) improves research capacity in the Earth and Ocean sciences by maintaining an open community digital data repository for rock and paleomagnetic data with portals that allow users to archive, search, visualize, download, and combine these versioned datasets. MagIC supports the international rock and paleomagnetic communities and endeavors to bring data out of private archives, making them accessible to all and (re-)useable for new, creative, collaborative scientific and educational activities.

Sea Data Net

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Account Required

Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

Basismonitoring Wadden

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Netherlands

Resource Description

Monitoring data of the Wadden Sea islands and coastal areas.

LifeWatch

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Account Required

Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Europe

Resource Description

LifeWatch ERIC is a European Infrastructure Consortium providing e-Science research facilities to scientists seeking to increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding of Biodiversity organisation and Ecosystem functions and services in order to support civil society in addressing key planetary challenges.

Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service

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Account Required

Relevant Departments:

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) provides consistent and quality-controlled information related to air pollution and health, solar energy, greenhouse gases and climate forcing, everywhere in the world.

European Data Portal (data.europa.eu)

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Netherlands, Europe

Resource Description

The portal provides access to open data from international, EU, national, regional, local and geo data portals. It replaces the EU Open Data Portal and the European Data Portal.

OSPAR

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Europe

Resource Description

OSPAR is the mechanism by which 15 Governments & the EU cooperate to protect the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic.

OSPAR started in 1972 with the Oslo Convention against dumping and was broadened to cover land-based sources of marine pollution and the offshore industry by the Paris Convention of 1974. These two conventions were unified, up-dated and extended by the 1992 OSPAR Convention. The new annex on biodiversity and ecosystems was adopted in 1998 to cover non-polluting human activities that can adversely affect the sea.

Horizon 2020 Energy Efficiency data hub

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Relevant Departments:

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Europe

Resource Description

ESPON

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Europe

Resource Description

The tools within ESPON ToolBox target policymakers and practitioners at all administrative levels (including cross-border and transnational groupings). The ESPON tools enable the use of information and data and make them easy accessible and usable. To find the tool you need you can filter the tools using their most relevant characteristics: maps, data, monitoring, analysis and TIA.

The ESPON EGTC is a European Grouping on Territorial Cooperation. ESPON started in 2002 and have continued since then building a pan-European knowledge base related to territorial dynamics.

Eurostat

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Europe

Resource Description

EUMETSAT

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Relevant Departments:

Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

The new EUMETSAT Data Store can be accessed through the Earth Observation Portal or directly via https://data.eumetsat.int. To get the most out of the service, new users will require a user registration, and the EUMETSAT Data Policy applies. Existing users will be able to use their current Earth Observation Portal credentials to access the new data access services.

As well as the web interface (pictured at the top of the page), you can also access the EUMETSAT Data Store using four different APIs that support downloading, the ability to search products based on collections and filter based on date, your region of interest, timeliness, and coverage. There is a subscription API (be available in the near future) which will notify you of new product availability.

UK Open Data (data.gov.uk)

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Europe

Resource Description

The open data portal for government agencies of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

UN Centre for HumData

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL)

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

Dutch Government Open Data

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Netherlands

Resource Description

Here you find an overview of all open and shared data that is published by the Dutch government.

Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3Data)

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Relevant Departments:

Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Geographic Coverage:

Worldwide

Resource Description

Data searching tool for academia to find research repositories for most subjects.