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5 datasets found

  • Spatially explicit data to evaluate spatial planning outcomes in a coastal region in São Paulo State, Brazil

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper entitled “The role of spatial planning in land change: An assessment of urban planning and nature conservation...

    Last updated: January 6, 2022

    • PDF
    • SHP
    • SERVICE
    • GeoTIFF
    • basic-services
    • built-up-classification
    • forest-gain
    • forest-persistence
    • land-use-and-cover-change
    • nature-conservation
    • planning-outcome
    • spatial-modelling
    • topography
    • urban-compactness
    • urban-morphology
    • urban-sprawl
  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high...

    Last updated: September 19, 2024

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • bioclim
    • climate
    • climate-change
    • climate-layers
    • climatology
    • free-climate-data
    • precipitation
    • temperature
  • CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ A novel set of global climate-related predictors at kilometre-resolution

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    A multitude of physical and biological processes on which ecosystems and human societies depend are governed by climatic conditions. Understanding how these processes are altered...

    Last updated: September 19, 2024

    • GeoTIFF
    • PDF
    • growing-degree-days
    • growing-season-length
    • precipitation
    • relative-humidity
    • soil-water-balance
    • solar-radiation
    • temperature
  • Historical Vegetation Height Model NFI

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The main datasets available are 4 nationwide Digital Surface Models (DSMs) and corresponding Vegetation Height Models (VHMs) with a spatial resolution of 1 m. The...

    Last updated: July 3, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • TXT
    • dsm
    • forest
    • historical
    • nfi
    • photogrammetry
    • vhm
  • Large GIS raster data derived from Natural Earth Data (Cross Blended Hypso with Shaded Relief and Water)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The attached data are some large GIS raster files (GeoTIFFs) made with Natural Earth data. Natural Earth is a free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. The data used...

    Last updated: August 20, 2025

    • GeoTIFF
    • SERVICE
    • cross-blended-hypso-with-shaded-relief-and-water
    • gis
    • large-files
    • natural-earth
    • qgis