Open data sources
Spatial
Remote sensing
Copernicus
- Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS): 100 m resolution land use classification and bio-geophysical products including Vegetation, fire, water, etc… https://land.copernicus.eu/global/
- Raw data: https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ
All things NOAA
- rnoaa R package https://docs.ropensci.org/rnoaa/ or https://github.com/ropensci/rnoaa/
Free high-res data
- Kalideos: 0.5 m resolution for only 3 regions in metropolitan France + La Reunion. Has access to Pleiades and Landsat 6-7 at least.
- RemotePixel Search engine for Landsat-8, Sentinel-2 & CBERS-4 data
Scotland
- Habitat maps of Scotland (2019 and 2020)
- Announcement
- Online maps
- Temporary repository
- Future repository under Scot Gov license https://spatialdata.gov.scot/
- Scotland historic land use map https://hlamap.org.uk
- Vacant and derelict land in Scotland by local authority
- SEPA Environmental Data (not all spatial) https://www.sepa.org.uk/environment/environmental-data/
- Historic Environment Scotland data portal http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/spatialdownloads/historiclanduseassessment
- National Records of Scotland postcode datasets https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/geography/nrs-postcode-extract
- Public Scottish spatial data https://spatialdata.gov.scot/
Various
- Digimap / EDINA: a variety of Ordnance Survey, historical, geological, LiDAR, marine maps and spatial data available to UK Higher and Further Education institutions.
- https://opendatainception.io/
- Geospatial https://ropensci.org/packages/geospatial/
- Natural Earth. Free raster and vector data.
- NASA EarthData NASA earth science data (requires registration)
- World Protected Areas https://www.protectedplanet.net/
Spatial data search engines / aggregators
- Geoseer spatial data search engine https://www.geoseer.net
- Free GIS data http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com
- Diva GIS http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata
- Geofabrik OpenStreetMap data extracts http://download.geofabrik.de
Weather / climate
R-APIs
- Stations data (Global Surface Summary Of the Day) https://docs.ropensci.org/GSODR/
- rnoaa R package https://docs.ropensci.org/rnoaa/ or https://github.com/ropensci/rnoaa/
- gridded NOAA data https://docs.ropensci.org/rerddap/
- NASA-POWER data https://docs.ropensci.org/nasapower/
- CRU-CL data https://docs.ropensci.org/getCRUCLdata/
Data sources
- WorldClim
- CEDA CRU TS4.06
- NOAA grided data https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/index.html
- Misc. weather / climate data sources list on StackExchange Opendata
- Met Office climate data
- DECC wind speed database (archived)
Other specialist data
- ROpenSci https://ropensci.org/packages/data-access/, including GBIF, eBird, iNaturalist, species traits, phylogenies, CITES, UICN
- Tide time tables https://www.tidetime.org/
- Tide time tables for Aberdeen
- Tide time tables for Montrose
- Tide time tables for Dundee
General data search engines / aggregators
- Pangaea https://www.pangaea.de
- Office for National Statistics (UK) http://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk
- EU data https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/main/data/database
- Awesome public datasets github repository https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
If you can think of good resources that are missing here, please feel free to contribute!