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Public domain
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305 rows use this label.
Attribution
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565 rows use this label.
Non-commercialNon-commercial
The publisher does not allow commercial use, or allows only research, education, and other non-commercial use. Commercial use may need written permission. These rows are marked with a Non-commercial badge in the catalog, on the dataset page, and in category and region lists.
20 rows use this label.
- GADM — GADM. Academic and other non-commercial use. Redistribution and commercial use need permission.
- WorldClim — WorldClim. Academic and other non-commercial use. Redistribution and commercial use need permission.
- World Database on Protected Areas — UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Non-commercial use. Commercial use needs permission from UNEP-WCMC.
- Global Fishing Watch Fishing Effort — Global Fishing Watch. CC BY-NC 4.0. Commercial use needs permission from Global Fishing Watch. A free account is needed to download.
- Harmonized World Soil Database v2.0 — FAO / IIASA. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Commercial use needs a licence request to FAO.
- Sentinel-2 cloudless mosaic — EOX IT Services. Mosaics from 2018 on are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, and commercial use is paid. The 2016 mosaic is CC BY 4.0. Served as tiles and WMTS; GeoTIFF downloads are on request.
- FAO GAEZ v4 — FAO / IIASA. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Commercial use needs a licence request to FAO.
- GRUMPv1 Urban Extent Polygons, Revision 02 — NASA SEDAC / CIESIN, Columbia University. SEDAC/CIESIN terms: users are prohibited from any commercial, non-free resale, or redistribution without explicit written permission; acknowledgement required
- Relative Wealth Index (RWI) — Meta Data for Good. CC BY-NC 4.0
- E-OBS daily gridded observational dataset — Copernicus C3S / ECA&D (KNMI). ECA&D/E-OBS data policy: strictly for use in non-commercial research and non-commercial education projects only
- Biodiversity Intactness Index (NHM v2.1.1, limited release) — Natural History Museum, London. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Global Distribution of Saltmarshes — UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). CC BY-NC 4.0
- Global Distribution of Coral Reefs — UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). UNEP-WCMC General Data License (excluding WDPA); for commercial use, contact UNEP-WCMC
- Global Distribution of Seagrasses — UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). UNEP-WCMC General Data License (excluding WDPA); for commercial use, contact UNEP-WCMC
- Vantor (Maxar) Open Data Program — Vantor (formerly Maxar Technologies). CC BY-NC 4.0
- Marine Ecoregions and Pelagic Provinces of the World (MEOW/PPOW) — UNEP-WCMC / The Nature Conservancy. UNEP-WCMC General Data License (excluding WDPA); for commercial use, contact UNEP-WCMC
- eBird Status and Trends — Cornell Lab of Ornithology. eBird Status and Trends data products: free for non-commercial research and education; commercial use requires permission from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Global Flood Database (MODIS flood events 2000–2018) — Cloud to Street. CC BY-NC 4.0
- Global Fishing Watch SAR Vessel Detections — Global Fishing Watch. CC BY-NC 4.0
- Raster Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (Arctic) — Raynolds et al., University of Alaska Fairbanks (Mendeley Data). CC BY-NC 3.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported). Mendeley Data licence text: “You are free to adapt, copy or redistribute the material, providing you attribute appropriately and do not use the material for commercial purposes.”
See publisher
This row does not get a shorter label. The terms may depend on the version or the file, or the publisher may offer more than one license. MERIT DEM is one of those: its page offers a non-commercial license and a share-alike license, and you choose. Read the publisher page before you download.
134 rows use this label.