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LIVEABLE PLANET EXPLORER

Forest Dynamics
Tree cover dynamics
WESR
Compilation of Different types/areas of pollution
Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP)
CCKP provides global data on historical and future climate, vulnerabilities, and impacts.
Infrastructure
Map of global cities, roads, railways and submarine cables)
Fire Data
Burnt Area - Fire Frequency
Global Wetlands
The Global Wetlands Map is an initiative to collect and share information on tropical wetlands in a visual format.
Sea Surface Temperature Data
Sea surface temperatures are mapped using the MODIS sensor on NASA's Aqua satellite.
Climate Stations
The KNMI Climate Explorer is a web application to analysis climate data statistically.
Lake Levels
Time-series of water level variations for some of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs.
Global Surface Water Explorer
Maps the location and temporal distribution of water surfaces at the global scale over the past 3.8 decades.
Sea Level Rise
Explore sea level rise and coastal flood threats by adjusting the controls below.
HydroInformatics Data Portal
This data portal contains useful geospatial resources relating to water, disaster, climate etc.
Google Earth
Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.
Google Earth Timelapse
Earth Timelapse is a global, zoomable video that lets you see how the Earth has changed over the past 37 years.
Erosion Risk
Estimates of soil loss from rainfall and runoff on a scale from 1 to 5.
Land Cover
A global land cover map for 2020 and 2021 at 10 m resolution based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data.
Open Defecation
People practicing open defecation (% of population)
Blue Economy
BlueTech Data Portal
Global Burden of Disease
Global Burden of Disease
Climate Change
Climate Change (Data Explorer and NDCs)
Fine Particulates
Global visualization of global dynamics
Biodiversity Data Portal
This data portal contains useful geospatial resources relating to biodiversity, forests, terrestrial ecosystems etc.
PM2.5
PM2.5 air pollution, mean annual exposure (micrograms per cubic meter)
Wastewater Treatment Plants
HydroWASTE is a spatially explicit global database of 58,502 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and their characteristics.
Open Pollution Data
Open Pollution Data Catalog (Draft)
Global Power Plants
The Global Power Plant Database is a comprehensive, open source database of power plants around the world.
Think Hazard
ThinkHazard provides a general view of the hazards, for a given location to promote disaster and climate resilience.
Global Mangrove Watch (GMW)
GMW provides the remote sensing data and tools for monitoring mangroves necessary for this.
Satellite Weather
Visualizations of global weather
Protected Areas
A resource to assess, monitor, report and possibly forecast the state of and the pressure on protected areas at multiple scales.
Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs)
The KBA Programme supports the identification, mapping, monitoring and conservation of KBAs
Soil Organic Carbon
Soil organic carbon (the carbon stored in soil organic matter) is crucial to soil health, fertility and ecosystem services, including food production.
Transboundary Aquifer Monitoring
Transboundary Aquifers of the World map
Gridded GDP
Visualizations of global data (incl. Gridded GDP)
Global Land Aridity Index
This Global Aridity index measures the relative dryness or wetness of land surfaces worldwide, with higher values indicating more arid conditions.
Disasters
Global Agriculture and Disaster Assessment System
Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas
The Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas provides information on global water risk using hydrological, climate, and geographical data.
MapX
An online platform for managing geospatial data on natural resources.
Lake Levels
Lake and river levels
Ocean Health Index
The global Ocean Health Index measures the state of the world’s oceans.
Freshwater Ecosystems
Freshwater ecosystems tool enables SDG reporting.
Climate Action Tracker
An independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement
Climate Watch Data
An online platform designed to empower multiple stakeholders with the open climate data, visualizations and resources
Groundwater Recharge Rates
Global map of groundwater recharge rates.
ND-GAIN
Summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges in combination with its readiness to improve resilience.
Air Quality
Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI)
IPCC WGI Interactive atlas
A novel tool for flexible spatial and temporal analyses of much of the observed and projected climate change information.
Air Quality
Real-time Air Quality
Changing Wealth of Nations
Changing Wealth of National Data Visualization
SDG Atlas
SDG Atlas 2023
Poverty
Poverty Headcount ratio at $2.15 per day (2017 PPP) (% population) and other development data
Waste Atlas
Visualization of Global solid waste data and analytics
Macroeconomy
IMF Datamapper