Data Sets

Brown University Library

Open Data Resources, includes data in categories "Earth and Geoscience" and "Environment."

Academic Data Sets

• CloudCase: A large-scale dataset and baseline for forecasting clouds

• WildfireDB: A Spatio-Temporal Dataset Combining Wildfire Occurrence with Relevant Covariates

• Grass Clover Data Set

• Plant Seedling Classification

• Leaf counting

• Leaf Classification

• Zebrafish tracking data

• Bark classification

• Plant phenotypes

• FOWD: Free Ocean Wave Dataset for Data Mining and Machine Learning

• Stanford Earthquake Data Set

• Harvard Dataverse: a repository for research data

Other Data Sets or Repositories

• ClimateNet Datasets (NERSC)

• OpenML

• Google Dataset Search: search engine for data

• Google Earth Engine Data Sets: a planetary-scale platform for Earth Science data and analysis

• Registry of Open Data on AWS: open geospatial data

• NASA Earth Science Data

• National Centers for Environmental Information - Data Access: climate and weather data (NOAA)

  • Paleoclimatology, Marine/Ocean, Model data, etc.

• xBD Dataset: annotated high-resolution satellite imagery for building damage assessment

• SpaceNet Challenge Datasets

• iWildCam 2020 Competition: camera trap images

• DeepWeeds: a multi-class weed species image classification data set

• xView: aerial imagery

• AI for Good Foundation (data available for some projects)

• TensorFlow Datasets: ready-to-use datasets for machine learning in Python (e.g. BigEarthNet, EuroSAT)

• Earth System Science Data: data publishing journal

• Data.gov: US government's Open Data

• USGS Science Data Catalog

• COVID + Atmosphere data sets (Caltech)

• Xeno-canto: Bird Call repository

• Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data

• Gridded Climate Data Sets (Physical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA)

• Geothermal Data Repository

New data sets

• EarthNet Challenge 2021

• Weather4Cast: Multi-sensor Weather Forecast Competition

• HumAID: human-annotated disaster incidents data from Twitter [paper] [dataset]

• CrisisBench: crisis-related social media datasets for humanitarian information processing [paper] [dataset]

This list of data sets has been made available as a resource. I did not create or maintain any of these data sets, so I can not guarantee their accuracy or availability.

If you are familiar with other interesting data sets related to Earth, Environmental or Planetary Sciences, please email the course staff and we'll add them to the list!