Layer Name | Source |
Elevation | SRTM Digital Elevation Model |
Slope | SRTM Digital Elevation Model |
Aspect | SRTM Digital Elevation Model |
Global Cover | ENVISAT’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) Level 1B Land Cover |
Forest Non-Forest | JAXA L-band PALSAR SAR and ALOS mosaics using backscatter coefficient to determine “Forest” and “Non-Forest” |
Total Canopy Cover | Landsat Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) total cover of vegetation of woody plants above 5 m in height. |
SAR Land Cover | HH and HV L-band ALOS/PALSAR, and HH and HV C-band. RADARSAT-2 using a hierarchical object-based image analysis approach to hydrologically variant subregions. |
Water | The Global Inland Water dataset shows inland surface water bodies, including fresh and saline lakes, rivers, and reservoirs. |
Roads | Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University - Distance Raster generated from Shapefile with Global Roads Open Access Data Set, Version 1 (gROADSv1) 1980-2010. From this distance to roads were calculated. |
Hydrology | WWF HydroSHEDS Raster - Hydrological data and maps based on Shuttle Elevation Derivatives at multiple scales. |
Human Density | WorldPop Raster with estimated the number of people per hectare by 2015, with national totals adjusted to match the estimates of the UN population division. |
Cattle Density | FAO, ILRI, the University of Oxford and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Raster with Global Distribution of Livestock |