GeoFRESH – an online platform for freshwater geospatial data processing

Freshwater ecosystems are characterized by their unique longitudinal and lateral habitat connectivity. As a result, spatial units in freshwater-specific analyses can often not be considered independent of each other. Accounting for this connectivity in modelling analyses requires advanced skills in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for adequately processing and managing the data. To address this challenge, we developed the GeoFRESH online platform, which is available at https://geofresh.org. The platform provides a graphical, easy-to-use interface to create freshwater-specific analysis-ready data for any given location in the world, based on a high-resolution stream network (https://hydrography.org/hydrography90m/hydrography90m_layers). Users can (i) upload and visualize point coordinates, (ii) automatically assign points to the closest stream network segment, (iii) annotate the point data with a suite of 104 local and/or upstream-aggregated topographic, climatic, land-cover and soil variables, (iv) visualize summary plots, and (v) download the data in csv-format for further analyses. The platform can be expanded given its modular structure and it can serve as a key element to support freshwater science and management relying on high-resolution geospatial analyses. GeoFRESH provides a low-entry interface while being complementary to the hydrographr R-package, and contributes importantly to the re-usability of data as an important aspect of the FAIR principles

From in situ observations to gridded fields using DIVAnd and the cloud

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Projections for Land Use Change in Brazil: 2000-2050, links to files in ArcGIS shapefile format

This data set contains the inputs and the results of the REDD+ Policy Assessment Centre project (REDD-PAC) project (http://www.redd-pac.org), developed by a consortium of research institutes (IIASA, INPE, IPEA, UNEP-WCMC), supported by Germany's International Climate Initiative. Taking a new land use map of Brazil for 2000 as input, the research team used the global economic model GLOBIOM to project land use changes in Brazil up to 2050. Model projections show that Brazil has the potential to balance its goals of protecting the environment and becoming a major global producer of food and biofuels. The model results were taken into account by Brazilian decision-makers when developing the country's intended nationally determined contribution (INDC)

GeoFRESH – an online platform for freshwater geospatial data processing

Freshwater ecosystems are characterized by their unique longitudinal and lateral habitat connectivity. As a result, spatial units in freshwater-specific analyses can often not be considered independent of each other. Accounting for this connectivity in modelling analyses requires advanced skills in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for adequately processing and managing the data. To address this challenge, we developed the GeoFRESH online platform, which is available at https://geofresh.org. The platform provides a graphical, easy-to-use interface to create freshwater-specific analysis-ready data for any given location in the world, based on a high-resolution stream network (https://hydrography.org/hydrography90m/hydrography90m_layers). Users can (i) upload and visualize point coordinates, (ii) automatically assign points to the closest stream network segment, (iii) annotate the point data with a suite of 104 local and/or upstream-aggregated topographic, climatic, land-cover and soil variables, (iv) visualize summary plots, and (v) download the data in csv-format for further analyses. The platform can be expanded given its modular structure and it can serve as a key element to support freshwater science and management relying on high-resolution geospatial analyses. GeoFRESH provides a low-entry interface while being complementary to the hydrographr R-package, and contributes importantly to the re-usability of data as an important aspect of the FAIR principles

FAIR Digital Object Demonstrators 2021

This paper gives a summary of implementation activities in the realm of FAIR Digital Objects (FDO). It gives an idea which software components are robust and used for many years, which components are comparatively new and are being tested out in pilot projects and what the challenges are that need to be urgently addressed by the FDO community. After basically only one year of advancing the FDO specifications by the FDO Forum we can recognise an increasing momentum to test and integrate essential FDO components. However, many developments still occur as soloistic engagements that offer a scattered picture. It is widely agreed that it is now time to combine these different pilots to comprehensive testbeds, to identify still existing gaps and to turn some services into components of a convincing and stable infrastructure. This step is urgently needed to convince even more institutions to invest in FDO technology and therefore to increase FAIRness of the evolving global data space

FAIR Digital Object Demonstrators 2021

This paper gives a summary of implementation activities in the realm of FAIR Digital Objects (FDO). It gives an idea which software components are robust and used for many years, which components are comparatively new and are being tested out in pilot projects and what the challenges are that need to be urgently addressed by the FDO community. After basically only one year of advancing the FDO specifications by the FDO Forum we can recognise an increasing momentum to test and integrate essential FDO components. However, many developments still occur as soloistic engagements that offer a scattered picture. It is widely agreed that it is now time to combine these different pilots to comprehensive testbeds, to identify still existing gaps and to turn some services into components of a convincing and stable infrastructure. This step is urgently needed to convince even more institutions to invest in FDO technology and therefore to increase FAIRness of the evolving global data space