Environmental data products accessed by the Env-DATA System
The following is a summary of datasets currently included in the Env-DATA System. Those datasets that are Active are currently running in the Track Annotation Service. Products available to "present" are being actively produced and updated, but because it takes time for the providers to process research-quality data products, annotation requests for the most recent few months will commonly return nodata values. For questions about testing or inactive products, please contact support@movebank.org.
| Datasets | Data description | Data provider | Temporal coverage | Geographic coverage | Temporal resolution | Spatial resolution | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASTER Global DEM V3 | Topography | US Geological Survey | — | 83°N–83°S 180°E–180°W |
— | 1 arc-second (30 meters) | Active |
| ECMWF Global Atmospheric Reanalysis (ERA5) | Weather, atmosphere, hydrology | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) | 1959–present | 89.463°N–89.463°S 180°E–180°W |
hourly | 0.1-0.5° | Awaiting update to new product location |
| ETOPO1 Global Relief Model | Topography and bathymetry | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | 1940–2008 | 90°N–90°S 180°E–180°W |
— | 1 arc-minute | Active |
| Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) | Precipitation | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 2000–present | 90°N–90°S (partial coverage for latitudes 60-90°) 180°E–180°W |
3 hour | 0.25° | Not active |
| GlobCover | Land cover and land-use type | European Space Agency (ESA) | 2004–2006, 2009 | 90°N–65°S 180°E–180°W |
— | 20 arc-seconds | Active |
| MODIS Land | evapotranspiration, fire, land cover, primary productivity, surface temperature, vegetation | NASA LPDAAC | 2000–present | 90°N–90°S 180°E–180°W |
Daily, 4 day, 8 day, 16 day, monthly, yearly | 250 m, 500 m, 1 km, 5.6 km (0.05°) | Updates to V6.1 in progress |
| MODIS Ocean | Sea surface temperature and other ocean surface conditions | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Ocean Biology Processing Group | 2002–present | 90°N–90°S 180°E–180°W |
Daily, 8 day, monthly, yearly | 4 km | Active |
| MODIS Snow | Snow albedo, snow cover | National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) | 2000–present | 90°N–90°S 180°E–180°W |
Daily, 8 day, monthly | 500 m, 1 km, 0.05° | Awaiting update to V6.1 |
| NASA Distance to the Nearest Coast | Distance to the nearest coast | NASA | — | 90°N–90°S 180°E–180°W |
— | 0.04° | Active |
| NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) | Weather, atmosphere, hydrology (North America only) | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Protection (NCEP) | 1979–present | 90°N–1°N0°–170°W | 3 hour | 32 km (at 40°N) | Active |
| NOAA Global Climate Indexes | Climate teleconnection patterns, indexes and anomalies | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | 1950–present | 90°N–90°S 180°E–180°W |
Daily, weekly, monthly | — | Active |
| Oregon State Ocean Productivity Reanalysis | Ocean net primary productivity (NPP) | Oregon State University | 2002–2015 | 90°N–90°S 180°E–180°W |
8 day, monthly | 1/6°, 1/12° | Active |
| OSCAR Ocean Surface Current Reanalysis | Ocean surface currents | NASA | 1993–present | 60°N–60°S 180°E–180°W |
5 day | 1/3° | Awaiting update to new product location |
| SEDAC Gridded Population of the World (GPW and GRUMP) | Human population density | NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) and Columbia University | 1990–2000 | 85°N–58°S 180°E–180°W |
5 year | 30 arc-second (1 km), 2.5 arc-minute | Active |
| Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) DEM | Topography | USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center | — | 60°N–56°S 180°E–180°W |
— | 1 arc-second (30 meters) | Active |
| Suomi-NPP VIIRS Land | evapotranspiration, fire, land cover, primary productivity, surface temperature, vegetation | NASA LPDAAC | 2012–present | 90°N–90°S 180°E–180°W |
Daily, 4 day, 8 day, 16 day, monthly, yearly | 250 m, 500 m, 1 km, 5.6 km (0.05°) | Not active |
| Suomi-NPP VIIRS Ocean | Sea surface temperature and other ocean surface conditions | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Ocean Biology Processing Group | 2012–present | 90°N–90°S 180°E–180°W |
Daily, 8 day, monthly, yearly | 4 km | Active |
| Derived topographic variables | Slope, aspect, rugosity | Calculated derived variables, based on DEMs | — | 83°N–83°S 180°E–180°W |
— | 1 arc-second | Not active |
| Derived wind variables for flight | Thermal and orographic uplift | Calculated derived variables, based on ECMWF or NARR and DEMs | 1979–present | 89.463°N–89.463°S 180°E–180°W |
1-3 hour | 0.25-0.3° | Active |
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