Additional data sources

Additional sources of risk data (hazard, exposure, disaster losses).

Name	License	Description	Purpose
Planetary Computer	GNU	Global environmental geodata as STAC catalog	Geodata catalog
GEE data catalog	GNU	Global environmental geodata as API catalog	Geodata catalog
Awesome GEE community catalog	GNU	Community-sourced geodata as Earth Engine assets	Geodata catalog

The Planetary Computer combines a multi-petabyte catalog of global environmental data with intuitive APIs, a flexible scientific environment that allows users to answer global questions about that data, and applications that put those answers in the hands of researchers and stakeholders.

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There is a nice QGIS plugin that allows you to directly get data in the software.

Fig. 29 Planetary Computer as STAC catalogue accessed via QGIS using STAC plugin.

The Google Earth Engine (GEE) catalog includes a variety of standard Earth science raster datasets. You can import these datasets into your script environment with a single click. You can also upload your own raster data or vector data for private use or sharing in your scripts.

The Awesome GEE community catalog consists of community sourced geospatial datasets made available for use by the larger Google Earth Engine community and shared publicly as Earth Engine assets. The project was started with the idea that a lot of research datasets are often unavailable for direct use and require preprocessing before use. This catalog lives and serves alongside the Google Earth Engine data catalog and also houses datasets that are often requested by the community and under a variety of open license.