Sources
Thematic Layers
Landcover
- Copernicus Land cover classification gridded maps. VERSION 2.1. Publication date: 2019-10-24. Downloaded (only 2018) on 20191209.
Global maps derived from satellite observations, from 1992 to present, describing the land surface into 22 classes defined using FAO Land Cover Classification System (LCCS).
Extracted as tiff with:
gdalwarp -of Gtiff -co COMPRESS=LZW -co TILED=YES -ot Byte -te -180.0000000 -90.0000000 180.0000000 90.0000000 -tr 0.002777777777778 0.002777777777778 -t_srs EPSG:4326 NETCDF:C3S-LC-L4-LCCS-Map-300m-P1Y-2018-v2.1.1.nc:lccs_class C3S-LC-L4-LCCS-Map-300m-P1Y-2018-v2.1.1.tif
Product consistent with the series of global annual LC maps from the 1990s to 2015 produced by the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI):
Species
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Version 2020-1. Downloaded on 20200408. Non-spatial attributes (only species selected) for:
- Reef-forming Corals (Hydrozoa and Anthozoa)
- Sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes)
- Amphibians
- Birds
- Mammals.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Spatial Data. IUCN, Version 2020-1. Downloaded on 20200408. Spatial data for:
- Reef-forming Corals (Hydrozoa and Anthozoa)
- Sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes)
- Amphibians
- Mammals.
- BirdLife’s species distribution data. BirdLife International, Version 2019-1. Received on 20200131. Spatial and non-spatial tables for birds.