Spatial Resources
Our Favourite Resources
As a landscape ecology lab, a lot of our work (all of our work?) deals with spatial data. Accessing spatial data can seem overwhelming when starting out, but we have compiled a list of spatial data resources that us ZULE members use on the regular! Choose the relevant type/topic of data below to find a list of relevant resources to you.
Some Great Databases
If you are looking for somewhere to start (other than here), here are some great databases or lists of data sources that can come in handy.
- Earth Engine Data Catalogue: incredible catalogue of satellite imagery/remote sensing datasets that are available on Google Earth Engine (and elsewhere)
- awesome-gee-community-catalogue: MORE amazing datasets available in Google Earth Engine, compiled and created by the GEE community
- Concordia’s Geospatial Data Subject Guide: dataset list compiled by Concordia’s (excellent) GIS librarian. If you have any GIS related questions, you can always email him!
- Montréal Open Data Portal: Open data published by the city of Montréal (other cities have these too!)
Dig in to the links below for more datasets that are specifically used by the ZULE lab
Things are Missing!
Do you use a spatial dataset all the time that isn’t on one of these lists? Please let us know! As mentioned on the home page, you can contribute to these resources as a collaborator on GitHub, by making a pull request, or by messaging Bella and saying what you want added. Thanks for contributing!!