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The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
Research, technology and policy for connected risk

Evidence and capability for systemic risk.

GCRI helps countries and institutions understand systemic risk, govern frontier technology and build the capability to act on what they learn. It is the research, development and policy institution of the Nexus Consortium, with GCRI US in Washington, DC and GCRI Canada in Ontario.

Find your route in What GCRI offers
Leads
Research, development and policy research. GCRI Canada leads the Consortium as its Secretariat and global contracting party
Organisations
GCRI US in Washington, DC and GCRI Canada in Ontario, each with its own legal identity
Works with
The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and the Global Risks Alliance (GRA), the other pillar institutions of the Nexus Consortium
Never
Regulates, certifies, licenses or approves
World mapThe world’s land and country boundaries, for context.
people per land cell (Natural Earth)LowerModerateHigherHighest

GCRI · institution · fieldDESIGN FIGURE

People and hazardsPeople per land cell, from each country’s Natural Earth population estimate. Select a cell for live events and its latest NASA POWER day.

Regions
6
In the consortium geography
Planned hubs
15
Coordination roles, not offices
Nexus systems
20
One shared operating environment
Platforms
30
All thirty established
01The institution

The technical office of the Consortium: evidence, methods and the Secretariat.

The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) works through GCRI US in Washington, DC and GCRI Canada in Ontario. GCRI Canada is the Lead Institution, Consortium Secretariat and lead contracting organisation of the Nexus Consortium. GCRI turns national questions into testable work and keeps the records the programme runs on.

Process explorer · GCRI · Consortium

Consortium from the technical office

11 steps6 stages3 gates

GCRI · Consortium

Consortium from the technical office

Consortium · Governance · Research · Platforms · Programme year · Foundry · Standards · Reports · Take part · Foundry year · Reports year · Handoffs · Contributed capacity · Programme states · Records · Report streams · The programme year · A national mission · Mission admission · Data and resources qualified · Build accepted for exercise · Action Week live operation · Stand-down and evidence sealed · Publication authorised · Correction and renewal · The Nexus cycle · National Nexus · Regional programmes · Working groups · Competence Cells and CERT · Joining as institution · Governance dialogues · Platform onboarding · Foundry builds · Labs · Reports · Standards adoption · Risk Academy · Index data intake · Finance readiness dossier · The Nexus Consortium · Twenty-seven phase cycle · Executable annual cycle · Complaint and appeal · Engineering change · Incident response and forensics · Provider exit and decommissioning · De-risking case handoff · Founding and institutional establishment · Consortium formation lifecycle · National Nexus formation · Constitutional amendment · Independent review and appeal · Correction and contestability · Body charter and council · Succession · Public interest and anti-capture · External authority hand-off · Funding · Ethics · Public transparency · Data stewardship and trust · Gates G0 to G7 · Forming the annual agenda · Adopting a Nexus Standard · NNC membership · Year-One leadership pathway · Working-group assignment by competence · National company and SPV · Public-authority interface and delegation · Annual Universe operating cycle · Provider qualification · Evidence to record · Evidence record · Build and release · Edition

GCRI Canada keeps the Secretariat, the technical office turns national questions into tested evidence, and the competent authority decides.

  1. 01 Agenda

    1. 01National questionsStart · National DesksNational Desks collect material questions, capability gaps and candidate missions.
    2. 02Evidence classifiedStep · GCRIGCRI’s evidence process classifies what is worth testing.

  2. 02 Mandate

    1. 03G0 · Annual programme authorisedGate · The Global Risks ForumGCRI opens the cycle project and the National Portfolio baseline.
    2. 04Consortium SecretariatRecord · GCRI CanadaThe Secretariat keeps the programme’s records and routes correspondence to the desks.

  3. 03 Technical office

    1. 05G2 · Data and resources qualifiedGate · GCRI technical officeSources, people and resources are qualified before the build.
    2. 06Core Build ReportRecord · GCRI, Foundry pillarGCRI builds in one month on the Nexus systems. GRF accepts the build for exercise.

  4. 04 Exercise and seal

    1. 07Exercise supportExercise · GCRI technical officeThe technical office runs the simulation environment. Evaluation is assigned to others.
    2. 08G5 · Evidence sealed and stand-down recordedGate · GCRITemporary access is revoked and transferable evidence is sealed.

  5. 05 Record and publish

    1. 09ReportsRecord · GCRIGCRI publishes. GRF authorises publication at G6.
    2. 10Standards SecretariatRecord · GCRI CanadaMethod findings return to the Nexus Standards as change proposals.

  6. 06 Decide

    1. 11Authority decidesOutcome · The competent authorityDecisions and execution stay with the government, operator or licensed institution.

GCRI · A national mission · How Nexus Consortium worksAn outline of how the work is designed to run; it does not report the status of any decision or record.

What it answers for

  1. Coordinates the integrated programme and keeps its records, calendars and source registers.
  2. Stewards evidence, methods and technical assistance so national questions become testable work.
  3. Forms country programmes with nationally accountable counterparts.
  4. Supports nationally and regionally accountable programmes under recorded mandates; contracting and deployment parties are identified for each engagement.
Integrated consortium secretariat
GCRI Canada within the approved lead mandate
Evidence, methods and technical assistance
GCRI technical and evidence stewardship
Decisions of the competent authority and execution
The relevant government, operator or licensed institution

Risk technology and intelligence

Evidence, models, data and technology that turn national questions into reproducible analysis, tested systems and published findings.

  • 01National risk assessmentCountry baselines, dependencies and evidence gaps
  • 02Infrastructure resilienceEnergy, water, transport and essential services
  • 03Data and AISovereign data environments and responsible AI
  • 04Technology testingIndependent evaluation under real operating conditions
  • 05Shared computingHigh-performance computing for annual missions
  • 06Research and reportsQuarterly and annual country reports with methods
International standing6 statuses and memberships
  • Special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
  • Member of the Civil Society Policy Forum of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • Member of the Santiago Network for averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • Observer of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
  • Member of Alliance 2030, Canada’s national network for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Member of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
02Live map

Hazards and exposure, now

Flood water, active fires and surface heat beside where people live and night-time lights, from NASA satellites, with elevation and live natural events. Switch layers, draw an area, read values and export an image with its citations.

The interactive map needs JavaScript; the layer list and sources are below.

Layers 3

Hazards and exposure

About this layer
Evidence
Observed (clouds leave gaps)
Source
VIIRS Global Flood Product (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Satellite detection; clouds leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-14
Resolution
about 250 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite detection; clouds leave gaps. Satellite or model raster as the provider publishes it. Clouds, swath gaps and retrieval error leave gaps and noise; values are indicators, not measurements at a place.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Observed (clouds and overpass timing leave gaps)
Source
VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS) (NASA LANCE FIRMS)
Provider
NASA LANCE FIRMS
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Satellite detection; clouds and overpass timing leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-13
Resolution
about 500 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite hot-spot detections for the day shown, including gas flares and industrial heat; not a confirmed fire, an incident report or a warning.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Estimated
Source
Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (NASA SEDAC (CIESIN, Columbia University))
Provider
NASA SEDAC (CIESIN, Columbia University)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Vintage
null; Census-based estimate, static (2020)
Resolution
about 1 km grid
Uncertainty
Census-based estimate of people per square kilometre in 2020, shown as exposure context; not a count of people affected by any hazard.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Observed (persistent cloud still leaves gaps)
Source
VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
8-day; Satellite 8-day composite; persistent cloud still leaves gaps
Newest at build
2026-09-14
Resolution
about 1 km grid
Uncertainty
Satellite skin temperature of the ground over the 8 days ending on the date shown, a heat exposure indicator; not air temperature, heat index or a heat warning.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Observed
Source
VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2) (NASA LAADS DAAC)
Provider
NASA LAADS DAAC
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Satellite radiance, corrected for moonlight and atmosphere
Newest at build
2026-10-12
Resolution
about 500 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite night-time radiance for the date shown; lights are a proxy for electricity use and outages, not a measurement of supply or access.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Observed (clouds leave gaps)
Source
VIIRS NOAA-20 Deep Blue AOD (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Satellite retrieval; clouds leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-14
Resolution
about 2 km grid
Uncertainty
Satellite measure of haze, smoke and dust through the whole air column on the day shown; an exposure indicator, not ground-level PM2.5, an air quality index or a health warning.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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Drag to move. Ctrl or ⌘ and scroll, pinch or the buttons to zoom; hover for the values under the pointer; reset returns to the region.

Hazards and exposure, framed on Canada.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date. They are indicators, not assessments of any place.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · NASA EONET · U.S. Geological SurveySources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), VIIRS 375 m active fire product, NASA LANCE; vector tiles via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). doi:10.7927/H49C6VHW. CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • MODIS and VIIRS atmosphere products, NASA LANCE and LAADS DAAC; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). Cite as: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003. doi:10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003. NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Live events: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET); events are indicative and keep their original source links.
  • Live: NASA EONET Events are indicative, not authority warnings.
  • Live: U.S. Geological Survey Events are indicative, not authority warnings.
  • NASA GIBS: We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
  • River discharge forecast, 30 days with range (GloFAS via Open-Meteo): Contains modified Copernicus Emergency Management Service information 2026; not a flood warning.
  • Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (https://open-meteo.com/), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
  • Optional layers (10 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026
  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Aerosol optical depth, daily: VIIRS NOAA-20 Deep Blue AOD, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

03Problem and practice

One shock becomes several. GCRI builds the evidence to act before it does.

Why connected risk outruns sector-by-sector evidence, what GCRI does about it, the science it applies and how a question moves to a tested, published answer.

The systems that keep societies running depend on one another. A drought becomes a power shortage, a food price spike and a strain on hospitals. New technologies change both what can go wrong and what institutions can do about it. Most mandates, budgets and data are still organised one sector and one border at a time.

Failures cascade

Water, energy, food, health, ecosystems and infrastructure share dependencies. Assessing them separately misses the compound events that cause the greatest harm.

Technology outpaces governance

Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum and autonomous systems create capability and exposure faster than institutions can evaluate or absorb them.

Evidence arrives late

Ministries, operators and financial institutions often decide without shared evidence, tested options or a clear statement of uncertainty.

Cascade trace · compound drought and heatIllustrative
Cascade trace, example screenAn illustrative trace of a compound drought and heat cascade in six steps from a rainfall deficit to hospital continuity at risk, each with its time offset, an evidence label and a falling confidence meter. Names and values are examples.

Fig. 02Six steps from a rainfall deficit to hospital continuity at risk, each with its own evidence label. Illustrative chain, not a forecast.

04Build and read risk

Build a live risk picture, then read how it couples and what responds.

Coupled risk, applied response.

The sectors urban flood touches and how strongly they depend on each other: what a study has to observe and model together.

Choose a context

ACoupled risk across six sectors6 / 15 relations

Sectors · Urban floodStress

Illustrative: a teaching cascade over teaching values, not measurements.
BApplied response across six pillars11 / 18 handoffs

Pillars · Urban floodKPI

Illustrative applications; the values are published benchmarks, cited in the readout.

In this contextDependence or handoff, heavier is strongerOutside this context

Context

Urban flood

Flooded streets take out substations, pumping stations and clinic access together; drinking water fails when power does.

W · E · I · F · H · B

Risk

Sectors
4 of 6
Relations
6 of 15
Coupling
0.46 share of total

Hover a corner, a line or a row to trace it across both sides.

Route

Applied to urban flood

L · F · U · S · R · A

Response

Pillars
5 of 6
Handoffs
11 of 18
Loops
8 closed

Expected value

What is at stake
$390Ba year at least, in infrastructure disruption costs to households and firms in low- and middle-income countriesWorld Bank, Lifelines, 2019
Return on resilience
4 : 1benefit to costWorld Bank, Lifelines, 2019
Avoided loss
30%less damage with 24 hours’ warning of a storm or heatwaveGlobal Commission on Adaptation, Adapt Now, 2019

Hover a pillar, a line or a row to read how it is applied.

A: a teaching cascade (shock 0.6, gain 0.35, four rounds) over teaching values for a typical city-region, not measurements. B: illustrative applications and the KPI each pillar answers for; values are published benchmarks, cited, not forecasts. Open events: NASA EONET, live.

05Field explainer

A country’s systems, before and after a shock.

How stress builds inland and travels through a country’s systems after a shock, on real geography with elevation: the Lower Mekong at baseline, under drought and heat, and in the flood after the drought. Select a scenario. The levels are examples, not results.

Basin stress field · select a scenarioReal geography · example values
Basin stress field, illustrative values on real geographyThe Lower Mekong region and how stress could build across it under three scenarios: baseline, drought and heat, or flood after drought. Real geography; illustrative levels, not results.
No signalLowElevatedHighSevere
Sea floorDelta, 0 to 10 mPlain, 50 to 150 mUpland, 400 to 800 mHighland, 1,500 to 2,500 mRivers

Fig. 01The Lower Mekong under a drought, heat or flood scenario. Real geography. The levels are illustrative, not results.

Baseline

What a country’s systems look like before a shock.

The National Model holds water, energy, food, health, biodiversity and critical infrastructure as one coupled system, cell by cell, with every value carrying its evidence label.

Systems
6
Coupled in every model
Channels
30
Transmission channels examined
Drought and heat

Stress builds inland, then travels through the grid.

A rainfall deficit lowers reservoirs, cuts hydropower, strains the grid at evening peak and reaches water treatment and hospitals weeks later. Each step keeps its own label and its own confidence.

Cascade
6
Steps from deficit to hospitals, traced below
Labels
9
Evidence labels, one per finding
Flood after drought

The coast and the lake plain take the second shock.

Intense rain on dry ground overwhelms drainage, inundates treatment works and pumping stations, and interrupts electricity. The same model shows where the two shocks compound.

Methods
54
In the STEM Commons, each with a canonical page
Systems
20
Nexus systems the model runs in

A research profile of a country is not a constituted national programme. The model is operated under the authority of the programme that owns the question and its data.

06National and regional programmes

Nationally owned programmes, comparable across borders and regions.

Each country forms its own consortium: institutions, leaders and experts in three pillars, with its own Desk, Model and Portfolio. Six regions compare compatible evidence on the systems that cross borders.

Each country forms its own consortium with accountable counterparts: institutions, leaders and experts in three distinct pillars. GCRI provides the methods, the shared environment and the Secretariat. The country keeps its agenda and its data.

National consortiums

National instruments

National Standards CouncilAdopts or adapts the Standards in each jurisdiction

Decides whether and how the Nexus Standards are adopted or adapted in that jurisdiction; owns the national profile, deviation register and national-language editions; nominates to the regional seats. Set by the national host and anchor institutions under national law; minimum a chair, a public-authority liaison where one exists, and members from at least three stakeholder groups (government, academia, industry, civil society, communities); no seat is sold or tied to a contribution.

How a national agenda forms

  1. National Desks collect material questions, capability gaps and candidate missions.
  2. Regional coordination identifies shared dependencies: basins, grids, health systems, ports, corridors, digital infrastructure and financial exposure.
  3. GCRI’s evidence process classifies what is observed, unknown, modelled and worth testing.
  4. GRF’s participation process tests inclusion, institutional fit, leadership demand and public-purpose legitimacy.
  5. GRA’s readiness process identifies financial transmission, protection gaps and diligence requirements without selecting investments.
  6. Scientific and affected-stakeholder challenge informs mission selection and methods.
  7. The authorised annual mandate sets scope, budget, participating structures, evaluation questions and publication intentions.

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07Programmes and routes in

What a country or institution can ask for, and where to start.

Ten programmes, each from a question to named deliverables, and a route in for every kind of institution and person. The current service level is information and enquiries.

Ten programmes a country or institution can request.

Each starts from a question an accountable owner puts to the Consortium and ends in named deliverables. National adoption, finance and execution remain separate decisions of the competent authority.

All programmes
  1. 01National Risk, Innovation and Portfolio BaselineWhat systems matter most, where are material dependencies and evidence gaps, and which capabilities or interventions deserve further work?
    • Baseline country profile
    • National systems model
    • Risk and capability portfolios
    • Innovation posture
  2. 02Sector and Critical-Infrastructure ResilienceHow could a shock propagate through essential services, and which changes warrant testing?
    • Sector dependency atlas
    • Risk scenarios
    • Service-continuity options
    • Engineering evidence
  3. 03Sovereign Data, Compute and AI CapabilityWhat technical environment can support national work without unnecessary dependency or loss of control?
    • Estate assessment
    • Data and compute architecture
    • Approved workload plan
    • Implementation options
  4. 04Responsible Innovation and Interoperability TestbedsDoes a candidate technology solve the intended problem under representative operating conditions?
    • Test protocol
    • Versioned candidate
    • Measured evaluation
    • Failure cases
  5. 05Multi-Hazard and Anticipatory-Action PreparednessCan evidence, warnings, institutions and preparedness actions work together under pressure?
    • Preparedness gap analysis
    • Scenario package
    • Warning and trigger verification
    • Exercise observations
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  1. 06Cross-Border and Shared-System MissionsWhich interdependencies cross borders, mandates or organisations, and how can compatible evidence improve decisions?
    • Shared-system profile
    • Compatible data and method interface
    • Cross-border scenario
    • Joint evidence brief
  2. 07Finance, Insurance and Development ReadinessWhat evidence does a competent financial institution need to evaluate resilience needs and possible interventions?
    • Exposure and protection-gap notes
    • Scenario evidence
    • Readiness dossier
    • Diligence-question register
  3. 08Leadership, Academy and Workforce FormationWhat human capability must improve for the programme to last?
    • Capability baseline
    • Learning plan
    • Contribution record
    • Supervised work products
  4. 09Annual Universe Missions and Contributed InfrastructureWhich of the year’s missions need temporary technical intensity and a controlled proving environment?
    • Mission contract
    • Resource allocation
    • Core Build evidence
    • Exercise evidence
  5. 10Research, Publications and Evidence ServicesWhat can responsibly be concluded and shared from the accumulated work?
    • Quarterly country reports
    • Annual flagships
    • Regional, sector and technology series
    • Methods papers
08The evidence chain

One method, written once, used across the Consortium.

GCRI’s platforms share fields with the Forum’s and the Alliance’s. Trace a field across the three institutions, then follow the work into the Standards it is written against, the courses that teach it and the Reports that publish it.

Tracer

How the platforms connect through shared fields

30 GCRI platforms28 shared fields30 counterpart platforms

  • RegistryOpen

    Standards

    The identifiers, schemas and conformance tests every GCRI method and dataset is written against.

    18foundation348risk20programmes

    Open StandardsWhich apply

  • Learning22 courses open

    Academy

    Courses in the methods behind GCRI’s work, from hydrology and epidemiology to model validation.

    9faculties118disciplines117courses

    Open the AcademyCatalogue

  • EvidenceCorrections open

    Reports

    Where GCRI’s findings, failures and corrections become citable, versioned evidence.

    10series4per year9labels

    Open ReportsSeries

The Global Risks Index

Every figure on this page is indexed: hazards, climate, conflict, Canada.

205 sources451 indicators905 hazards54 series195 country profiles

Values forming2026-10-23 · 22c6eed

Overview

  1. 01 · Sources205 registered sourcesEvery value keeps its source and licence; withheld values are counted.Data and licences
  2. 02 · Nexus StandardsNIS-1 and NHS-1451 indicators, 905 hazards; every record carries a UNI.Nexus Standards
  3. 03 · The Index54 series, 195 country profilesComputed on the standards; no value is published until an edition is released.Values formingThe Global Risks Index
  4. 04 · This pageThe Global Centre for Risk and InnovationMaps, figures and feeds read the Index in the context of hazards, climate, conflict and Canada.Public API
Sources205registered, each with its licenceIndicators451NIS-1, 106 composites, 20 domain indicesHazards905NHS-1, crosswalked to UNDRR-ISC HIPsSeries54global, sector, strategic, technology, thematicCountry profiles195one site per country

Series in this context hazards, climate, conflict

All 54 series · The 20 domain indices

GCRI

Country profiles

1

Country profiles · Canada

Every country profile carries the source and licence of each value. Correct a value or reply · all country profiles

Series in this context

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  1. GLBGlobal SystemsThe state of interdependent global risk: the twenty domain indices aggregated to the world, the five core systems (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity) and their couplings, the global tail register and the gap…NXS-GRX-AR-000002HAZCLICONSOCFOOWATHLTENEINFFISFINECOCYBTECENVDEMGOVCRSMACSPC
  2. TH-04Disaster Risk Intelligence (DRI)Signals, observations, event streams, geospatial layers and scenario packs turned into structured risk intelligence for preparedness and planning.NXS-GRX-AR-000111HAZCLICONHLT
  3. GS-10Global CitiesUrban exposure, heat, flooding, informal settlement, service dependency and the economic weight of cities at risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000068DEMHAZINFSOCCLI
  4. GS-07Global ClimateChronic and acute physical climate hazard, transition exposure, adaptation gaps and scenario pathways to 2030, 2050 and 2100.NXS-GRX-AR-000065CLIHAZENVENEFIN
  5. GS-01Global WaterAccess, scarcity, quality, floods and droughts, groundwater depletion, transboundary dependency and the couplings of water to energy, food, health and nature.NXS-GRX-AR-000059WATHAZCLIHLTFOOENEENV
  6. GS-02Global EnergySupply adequacy, import dependency, grid reliability, affordability, extreme-weather exposure, critical minerals and transition pathways.NXS-GRX-AR-000060ENEINFCLIECOCYBMAC
  7. GS-03Global Food and agrifoodAcute and chronic food insecurity, production shocks, import dependency, prices, fertiliser and logistics chokepoints, nutrition and pollination dependency.NXS-GRX-AR-000061FOOWATCLIECOCONSOCENV
  8. GS-04Global HealthHealth security capacity, epidemic emergence and spread, heat and air-quality burden, health system stress and access.NXS-GRX-AR-000062HLTSOCDEMWATCLICRS
  9. GS-05Global Finance and economyFiscal and public debt risk, financial stability, external dependence, inflation and growth at risk, and the macro-financial channels of physical and transition risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000063FISFINECOMACCLI
  10. GS-06Global DevelopmentPoverty, inequality, human development, demographic pressure and displacement as the ground on which shocks become losses.NXS-GRX-AR-000064SOCDEMMACHLTGOV
  11. GS-08Global DisasterMulti-hazard exposure, disaster losses and mortality, return-period losses, protection gaps and coping capacity.NXS-GRX-AR-000066HAZCRSINFSOCFIS
  12. GS-09Global InfrastructureInfrastructure fragility, service continuity, interdependency of power, water, transport and telecommunications, and investment exposure.NXS-GRX-AR-000067INFENECYBHAZWAT
  13. GS-11Global BiodiversityEnvironmental pressure, ecosystem condition, nature dependency of economies and the nature–climate–water–food feedbacks.NXS-GRX-AR-000069ENVCLIWATFOOECO
  14. GS-12Global Earth observationWhat Earth observation can and cannot see of risk: coverage, revisit, latency and the observing systems GRIx depends on.NXS-GRX-AR-000070HAZCLIENVSPCTEC
  15. GS-13Global Cyber and digitalCyber capability and threat exposure, digital dependency, connectivity resilience and the cyber-physical channels into essential services.NXS-GRX-AR-000071CYBTECINFGOV
  16. GS-14Global Policy and institutionsGovernance weakness, state capacity, rule of law, preparedness frameworks and the institutional ability to anticipate and adapt.NXS-GRX-AR-000072GOVCRSCON
  17. GS-15Global Science and engineeringThe scientific, engineering and data capacity societies need to measure, model and reduce risk, and its concentration.NXS-GRX-AR-000073TECSOCGOV
  18. SR-01Global PolycrisisHow crises become entangled: common causes, domino effects and feedbacks across climate, economy, health and security.NXS-GRX-AR-000074HAZCLICONFISFOOHLTECO
  19. SR-02Conflict, fragility and human securityConflict risk and escalation, fragility, organised violence, civilian harm and the conflict–climate–food–displacement nexus.NXS-GRX-AR-000075CONGOVDEMFOOSOC
  20. SR-03Supply chains, trade and chokepointsTrade concentration, maritime and overland chokepoints, input–output exposure and the propagation of supply shocks.NXS-GRX-AR-000076ECOINFENEFOOTEC
  21. SR-04MineralsCritical-mineral concentration, processing dependency, price and export-restriction risk, and the environmental and social footprint of extraction.NXS-GRX-AR-000077ECOTECENEENVGOV
  22. SR-05Fiscal resilienceFiscal space, debt sustainability signals, contingent liabilities from disasters, and pre-arranged finance.NXS-GRX-AR-000078FISMACFINHAZ
  23. SR-06Displacement and demographic changeForced displacement, migration pressure, ageing, youth bulges and urbanisation as risk multipliers.NXS-GRX-AR-000079DEMSOCCONCLI
  24. SR-07Food, water and energyThe food–water–energy nexus: shared stressors, trade-offs and joint failures.NXS-GRX-AR-000080FOOWATENECLI
  25. SR-08Financial contagion and systemic financeInterconnected exposures, sovereign–bank links, capital-flow reversals and contagion through financial networks.NXS-GRX-AR-000081FINFISECOMAC
  26. SR-09Planetary boundariesEarth-system boundaries and tipping elements as slow-onset, high-impact risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000082ENVCLIWATFOO
  27. SR-10Digital public infrastructureIdentity, payments and data-exchange infrastructure as public goods, and their concentration, cyber and continuity risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000083CYBTECGOVINF
  28. SR-11Information integrity and social cohesionInformation disorder, polarisation, trust and cohesion as amplifiers of every other risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000084GOVSOCCONCYB
  29. SR-12Health security and biosecurityPandemic and epidemic preparedness, antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic spillover and biosecurity controls, at public-safe level.NXS-GRX-AR-000085HLTENVCRSGOV
  30. SR-13Strategic technologyConcentration and control of strategic technologies, export controls and technological dependency.NXS-GRX-AR-000086TECECOCYB
  31. SR-14Global catastrophic and tail riskLow-probability, high-impact and global catastrophic risks: severe space weather, super-eruptions, engineered and natural pandemics, nuclear and frontier-technology failure modes, compound collapses.NXS-GRX-AR-000087SPCHAZHLTTECCON
  32. TH-01WEFH-B InterdependencyThe water, energy, food, health and biodiversity systems read together: drought to energy stress, energy disruption to health stress, biodiversity loss to food-system stress, flood to water contamination, heat to…NXS-GRX-AR-000108WATENEFOOHLTENV
  33. TH-02Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)Hazard, exposure, vulnerability, capacity, preparedness, redundancy and recovery readings for planning and learning, aligned to the Sendai Framework targets.NXS-GRX-AR-000109HAZCRSINFSOC
  34. TH-03Disaster Risk Finance (DRF)Loss sensitivity, protection gaps, contingent liabilities and the readiness questions for pre-arranged finance, insurance and risk transfer.NXS-GRX-AR-000110FISHAZFINCRS
  35. XT-01Artificial Intelligence and Agentic SystemsAI and agentic systems as physical infrastructure (compute, energy, water, materials and supply chains) and as a hazard source: failure, misuse, concentration and oversight gaps.NXS-GRX-AR-000088TECCYBENEWATGOV
  36. XT-02Cyber and cyber-physical systemsThreats to operational technology, industrial control and cyber-physical systems across energy, water, health, ports and logistics.NXS-GRX-AR-000089CYBINFENE
  37. XT-03Telecommunications, open radio networks and edgeTelecom resilience, open and AI-native radio access networks, private wireless, edge compute and spectrum constraints.NXS-GRX-AR-000090INFCYBTEC
  38. XT-04Sovereign compute, HPC and cloudCompute dependency and concentration, cloud and data-residency risk, accelerator supply and secure compute.NXS-GRX-AR-000091TECCYBENE
  39. XT-05Quantum-relevant securityCryptographic resilience and the migration to post-quantum cryptography across public and financial systems.NXS-GRX-AR-000092CYBTECFIN
  40. XT-06SemiconductorsSemiconductor supply concentration, fabrication chokepoints, materials and equipment dependency and export-control exposure.NXS-GRX-AR-000093TECECOINF
  41. XT-07Earth observation and space systemsDependency on satellites for navigation, communications and observation; orbital congestion, debris and space-weather exposure.NXS-GRX-AR-000094SPCTECINF
  42. XT-08Drones, robotics and autonomous systemsAutonomous and robotic systems in logistics, agriculture, industry and security: failure, misuse and safety oversight.NXS-GRX-AR-000095TECINFCON
  43. XT-09Sensors, IoT and industrial IoTConnected sensing and control across cities, utilities and industry: attack surface, data integrity and dependency.NXS-GRX-AR-000096CYBINFTEC
  44. XT-10Digital twins and simulationDigital twins and simulation used for risk decisions: model risk, validation and dependency.NXS-GRX-AR-000097TECGOV
  45. XT-11Digital identity and trustIdentity, authentication and trust infrastructure: exclusion, fraud, breach and concentration risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000098CYBGOVSOC
  46. XT-12Positioning, navigation and timingDependency of power, telecom, finance and transport on positioning and timing signals; jamming, spoofing and space weather.NXS-GRX-AR-000099SPCINFCYB
  47. XT-13Energy transition technologiesBatteries, hydrogen, grid storage, renewables and their supply chains, failure modes and transition risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000100ENETECECOCLI
  48. XT-14Software and supply-chain integrityOpen-source and commercial software dependencies, build integrity and provenance across critical systems.NXS-GRX-AR-000101CYBTEC
  49. XT-15Biotechnology and biosecurityBiotechnology capability and governance at public-safe level: laboratory biosafety, oversight and detection capacity; no capability information is published.NXS-GRX-AR-000102HLTTECGOV
  50. XT-16Advanced manufacturingAdvanced and additive manufacturing, industrial automation and their supply, cyber and labour risks.NXS-GRX-AR-000103TECECOCYB
  51. XT-17Distributed ledgers and decentralised infrastructureDistributed ledgers and decentralised physical infrastructure networks: operational, financial-stability and governance risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000104FINTECCYB
  52. XT-18Climate intervention technologiesCarbon removal and proposed climate interventions: physical, governance and termination risks, read from published assessments only.NXS-GRX-AR-000105CLIENVGOVTEC
  53. XT-19Neurotechnology and human augmentationNeurotechnology and augmentation: safety, privacy, equity and governance risks.NXS-GRX-AR-000106TECHLTGOV
  54. XT-20Converging technologiesRisks that emerge where frontier technologies combine (AI with biotechnology, autonomy with cyber, compute with energy) and outrun single-technology governance.NXS-GRX-AR-000107TECCYBHLTGOV

All 54 series · The 20 domain indices

Hazard domains

905 hazards NHS-1, crosswalked to UNDRR-ISC HIPs GRIx hazards

Indicators and domains

451 indicators NIS-1, 106 composites, 20 domain indices GRIx indicator catalogue

  • CLIClimate17 series
  • CONConflict10 series
  • FINFinance8 series
  • GOVGovernance17 series
  • HAZHazards13 series
  • INFInfrastructure16 series
  • CRSCrisis7 series
  • CYBCyber19 series
  • DEMDemography6 series
  • ECOEconomy13 series
  • ENEEnergy13 series
  • ENVEnvironment11 series
  • FISFiscal7 series
  • FOOFood10 series
  • HLTHealth12 series
  • MACMacro6 series
  • SOCSociety12 series
  • SPCSpace5 series
  • TECTechnology26 series
  • WATWater10 series

The 20 domain indices

Nexus Standards

Nexus Standards

Sources and licences

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SourceOriginLicenceLegal statusCommercial use
OpenStreetMap building footprints and height tagsosm.vector.buildingswww.openstreetmap.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenStreetMap planet extracts and minutely/hourly/daily replicationosm.planet.replicationplanet.openstreetmap.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenFreeMap Liberty / planet vector tiles (OSM-derived style lineage; public host not used at runtime)osm.openfreemap.libertytiles.openfreemap.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
VersaTiles OSM Shortbread vector tiles (OSM-derived COP catalog)osm.versatiles.shortbreadtiles.versatiles.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenFreeMap public instance (tiles.openfreemap.org) as the browser-direct vector basemap of the Risk Academy non-profit pagesosm.openfreemap.academy-publictiles.openfreemap.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
VersaTiles public tile server (tiles.versatiles.org) as a browser-direct vector basemap of the Risk Academy non-profit pagesosm.versatiles.academy-publictiles.versatiles.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
OpenStreetMap Foundation vector tiles (vector.openstreetmap.org, Shortbread) on the Risk Academy non-profit pages, tiles onlyosm.osmf-vector.academy-publicvector.openstreetmap.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
OpenAlex works API (api.openalex.org) as a live research source of the Risk Academy hubopenalex.academy-publicapi.openalex.orgCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Crossref REST API (api.crossref.org) as a live research source of the Risk Academy hubcrossref.academy-publicapi.crossref.orgLicenseRef-Crossref-Metadata-FactsAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Europe PMC RESTful web service (www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc) as a live research and preprint source of the Risk Academy hubeuropepmc.academy-publicwww.ebi.ac.ukLicenseRef-EMBL-EBI-Terms-of-UseAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
GDELT DOC 2.0 API (api.gdeltproject.org) as a live news source of the Risk Academy hubgdelt.academy-publicapi.gdeltproject.orgLicenseRef-GDELT-Open-Use-With-CitationAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
ReliefWeb API v2 (api.reliefweb.int) as a live humanitarian source of the Risk Academy hub, once an appname is approvedreliefweb.academy-publicapi.reliefweb.intLicenseRef-ReliefWeb-TermsPROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
arXiv API (export.arxiv.org) metadata as a preprint source of the Risk Academy hub, through the relay or the daily snapshotarxiv.academy-publicexport.arxiv.orgCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Google News RSS search feeds (news.google.com/rss) as headline links on the Risk Academy hub, through the relay or the daily snapshotgoogle-news-rss.academy-publicnews.google.comLicenseRef-Google-News-Feed-Personal-Use-OnlyPROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (30 m global DSM), self-hosted Terrarium terrain archivecopernicus.dem.glo30registry.opendata.awsLicenseRef-Copernicus-DEMAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Sentinel-2 Level-2A surface reflectance COGs (AWS Open Data, Earth Search catalogue)copernicus.sentinel2.l2a.cogsregistry.opendata.awsLicenseRef-Copernicus-Sentinel-DataAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Copernicus DEM GLO-30 / GLO-90 COGs read on demand by nexus-rastercopernicus.dem.glo30.cogsregistry.opendata.awsLicenseRef-Copernicus-DEMAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
ESA WorldCover 10 m land cover (2020 / 2021) COGsesa.worldcover.10mregistry.opendata.awsCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
UNDRR-ISC Hazard Definition & Classification Review, 2025 Update of the Technical Report (Hazard Information Profiles classification, identifiers and multi-hazard method)undrr-isc.hip-classification.2025doi.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (bundled same-origin GeoJSON)naturalearth.admin0.110mwww.naturalearthdata.comLicenseRef-Public-Domain-Natural-EarthAPPROVEDALLOWED
geoBoundaries gbOpen administrative boundaries API (ADM0-ADM5)geoboundaries.gbopenwww.geoboundaries.orgPer-boundary source licence (boundaryLicense), admitted per country by the boundary licence gateAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
ohsome OSM history API (operator-bound only)osm.history.ohsomeapi.ohsome.orgODbL-1.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Nexus self-hosted OpenStreetMap planet basemap (Planetiler OpenMapTiles profile, PMTiles)osm.planet.omt.self-hostedplanet.openstreetmap.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenStreetMap Overpass API (bounded investigation / gap-fill)osm.overpasswiki.openstreetmap.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenStreetMap planet on the Nexus self-hosted Overpass engine (clone + minute replication)osm.overpass.self-hosted-planetplanet.openstreetmap.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenStreetMap regional extracts (Geofabrik download server) for bounded engine buildsosm.geofabric.regional-extractsdownload.geofabrik.deODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Overture Maps buildings theme (GeoParquet)overture.buildingsdocs.overturemaps.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Overture Maps places theme (GeoParquet, read in place)overture.placesdocs.overturemaps.orgCDLA-Permissive-2.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
City of Toronto Open Data asset registers (facilities, infrastructure and heritage datasets)toronto.open-data.asset-registersopen.toronto.caOpen Government Licence – Toronto (based on version 1.0 of the Open Government Licence – Ontario); not yet reviewedLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Ontario Data Catalogue asset registers (provincial facilities and infrastructure datasets)ontario.data-catalogue.asset-registersdata.ontario.caOpen Government Licence – Ontario; not yet reviewedLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
GlobalBuildingAtlas ODbL building polygons (OSM + Microsoft), research isolatedgba.odbl.polygonhuggingface.coODbL-1.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDPROHIBITED
GlobalBuildingAtlas non-ODbL polygons (Google Open Buildings, CLSM, PSR-derived)gba.bync.polygonhuggingface.coCC-BY-NC-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDPROHIBITED
GlobalBuildingAtlas LoD1 JSON linking polygons to height/variancegba.bync.lod1huggingface.coCC-BY-NC-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDPROHIBITED
GlobalBuildingAtlas 3 m building height GeoTIFF (GBA.Height)gba.bync.heightmediatum.ub.tum.deCC-BY-NC-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDPROHIBITED
GlobalBuildingAtlas generation software (im2bf, im2bh, produce_lod1)gba.generation.codegithub.comMIT-with-Commons-ClausePROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
AlphaEarth Foundations Satellite Embedding dataset (annual, 64-band, 10 m)alphaearth.satellite-embedding.annualdevelopers.google.comLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
geoBoundaries gbOpen ADM0 to ADM5 boundaries (William & Mary geoLab)geoboundaries.gbopen.admwww.geoboundaries.orgNOASSERTIONAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
UN OCHA Common Operational Datasets, Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB, P-codes) on HDXocha.cod-abdata.humdata.orgPer-country licence published on HDX (license_id), admitted per country by the boundary licence gateAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
UN Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB), UN Geospatial / UN Statistics Divisionun.salb.admsalb.un.org
SALB Terms of Use (2021). Copyright vested in the United Nations; "The SALB Data may be used…SALB Terms of Use (2021). Copyright vested in the United Nations; "The SALB Data may be used for only non-commercial purposes"; users are prohibited from changing the geometry or content without consent of the Contributor; derived products must credit "from SALB Data, United Nations" and the Contributor; access is revocable and non-transferable.
LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDPROHIBITED
UN Geodata country boundaries (UN Geospatial BNDA, the basis of the UN Clear Map)un.geodata.bndawww.un.org
Terms of Use of the UN Geodata: designed for the production of maps for the UN Secretariat;…Terms of Use of the UN Geodata: designed for the production of maps for the UN Secretariat; Outside Users may use the Data only for the purpose identified by the Geospatial Information Section; "Under no circumstances may the Data be used for commercial purposes"; the UN must be recognised as the source unless the data is altered or combined.
LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDPROHIBITED
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb States and Counties (TIGER/Line geography)us.census.tigerweb.admtigerweb.geo.census.govLicenseRef-US-Government-WorkLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Statistics Canada 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files (provinces and territories, census divisions, census subdivisions)ca.statcan.boundary-filesgeo.statcan.gc.ca
Open Government Licence - Canada, version 2.0 (open.canada.ca record "2021 Census - Boundary…Open Government Licence - Canada, version 2.0 (open.canada.ca record "2021 Census - Boundary files", license_id ca-ogl-lgo; the service description states "Use Limitation: Open Government Licence - Canada"). Worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information, including for commercial purposes, on condition that the source is acknowledged ("Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada") and no official status or endorsement is implied. Approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-goc-ogl-canada-boundaries).
APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
INSPIRE Administrative Units (EU Member State national mapping and cadastral agencies)eu.inspire.auinspire.ec.europa.eu
Set per Member State dataset (no single licence). Each national dataset needs its own licence…Set per Member State dataset (no single licence). Each national dataset needs its own licence check before it can be admitted.
LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
ISO 3166-1 country codes and ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes (International Organization for Standardization)iso.3166www.iso.org
ISO copyright. ISO's help centre: purchased Country Codes "can be downloaded to your database…ISO copyright. ISO's help centre: purchased Country Codes "can be downloaded to your database and used in order to implement the standard ISO 3166. However, selling them to others and further reproduction is not permitted."
LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Unicode CLDR subdivision ids and names (ISO 3166-2 based)unicode.cldr.subdivisionsgithub.comUnicode-3.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
UN Statistics Division, Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49)unsd.m49unstats.un.orgUnited Nations terms of use (code list; attribution)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
GADM database of Global Administrative Areasgadm.boundariesgadm.orgGADM licence (free for academic and other non-commercial use; commercial use not allowed without permission)PROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
World Bank Open Data (Indicators API v2, World Development Indicators and other catalogue datasets)worldbank.open-dataapi.worldbank.orgCC-BY-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Eurostat dissemination API (SDMX 2.1 / JSON-stat statistics)eurostat.disseminationec.europa.euCC-BY-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
OECD Data Explorer SDMX APIoecd.data-explorersdmx.oecd.orgCC-BY-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
UNdata (United Nations Statistics Division data portal)un.datadata.un.orgUNdata terms of use (free of charge; may be copied and redistributed provided UNdata is cited as the reference)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
GBIF occurrence API and downloads (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)gbif.occurrenceapi.gbif.orgPer-dataset CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0 (set by each data publisher)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
ERA5 reanalysis via the Copernicus Climate Data Store (C3S / ECMWF)ecmwf.era5.cdscds.climate.copernicus.euCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center active storms, forecast tracks and cones (Atlantic, East and Central Pacific)noaa.nhc.tropical-cycloneswww.nhc.noaa.gov
U.S. Government work (NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center), public domain per the NHC…U.S. Government work (NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center), public domain per the NHC disclaimer; approved by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-noaa-nhc-nws-spc)
APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA NCEI Access Data Service (climate observations and archives)noaa.ncei.accesswww.ncei.noaa.govU.S. Government work (public domain) except datasets that carry their own restrictions (e.g. some non-U.S. station data)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
NASA Earthdata Common Metadata Repository (CMR) searchnasa.earthdata.cmrcmr.earthdata.nasa.govNASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Alaska Satellite Facility DAAC (ASF) data pool downloadsnasa.earthdata.daac.asfasf.alaska.edu
NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as…NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed
LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Land Processes DAAC (LP DAAC, USGS EROS) on-premises data pool downloadsnasa.earthdata.daac.lpdaaclpdaac.usgs.gov
NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as…NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed
LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC) downloadsnasa.earthdata.daac.nsidcnsidc.org
NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as…NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed
LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL DAAC) downloadsnasa.earthdata.daac.ornldaac.ornl.gov
NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as…NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed
LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC, JPL) tool and OPeNDAP hostsnasa.earthdata.daac.podaacpodaac.jpl.nasa.gov
NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as…NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed
LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) on-premises hostsnasa.earthdata.daac.gesdiscdisc.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as…NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed
LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
EM-DAT international disaster database (CRED, UCLouvain)emdat.credwww.emdat.beEM-DAT terms of use (registration required; free for non-commercial use; commercial use needs a CRED licence)PROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
NOAA National Weather Service API active alerts (CAP v1.2 as GeoJSON)noaa.nws.alertsapi.weather.gov
U.S. Government work (NOAA National Weather Service), public domain per the NWS disclaimer;…U.S. Government work (NOAA National Weather Service), public domain per the NWS disclaimer; approved by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-noaa-nhc-nws-spc)
APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA National Weather Service API points metadata and gridpoint forecastsnoaa.nws.pointsapi.weather.gov
U.S. Government work (NOAA National Weather Service), public domain per the NWS disclaimer;…U.S. Government work (NOAA National Weather Service), public domain per the NWS disclaimer; approved by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-noaa-nhc-nws-spc)
APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center convective outlooks (GeoJSON) and preliminary storm reports (CSV)noaa.spc.productswww.spc.noaa.gov
U.S. Government work (NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center), public domain per the NWS disclaimer;…U.S. Government work (NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center), public domain per the NWS disclaimer; approved by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-noaa-nhc-nws-spc)
APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
MET Norway Locationforecast 2.0 (api.met.no point forecasts)metno.locationforecastapi.met.noCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET) v3 eventsnasa.eonet.eventseonet.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; acknowledgement…NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; acknowledgement requested); EONET metadata is subject to the EONET disclaimer; event source links keep their own terms; approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-open-weather-sources)
APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) Open Data server (opendata.dwd.de)dwd.opendataopendata.dwd.deCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Environment and Climate Change Canada MSC GeoMet (OGC API / WMS) and MSC Datamarteccc.geometapi.weather.gc.ca
Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence (the licence page does not…Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence (the licence page does not name the Open Government Licence - Canada); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-open-weather-sources)
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ECMWF open data (IFS and AIFS real-time forecasts)ecmwf.open-datadata.ecmwf.intCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Copernicus Emergency Management Service rapid mapping activations and productscopernicus.ems.rapid-mappingrapidmapping.emergency.copernicus.eu
Copernicus free, full and open data policy (Delegated Regulation (EU) 1159/2013, Regulation…Copernicus free, full and open data policy (Delegated Regulation (EU) 1159/2013, Regulation (EU) 377/2014; the EMS terms page now cites Regulation (EU) 2021/696); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)
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GloFAS global flood forecasts and reanalysis (CEMS-Floods, Early Warning Data Store)copernicus.glofasewds.climate.copernicus.eu
CEMS-FLOODS datasets licence (rev. 1); approved with conditions by the repository owner on…CEMS-FLOODS datasets licence (rev. 1); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)
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JRC global river flood hazard maps (flood depth by return period, European Commission JRC)jrc.global-river-flood-hazard-mapsdata.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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WRI Aqueduct Floods hazard maps (riverine and coastal inundation depth by return period and scenario)wri.aqueduct-floodswww.wri.orgNot recorded in the repository; WRI dataset terms for the Aqueduct Floods release must be confirmed by Legal/IPLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
WRI Aqueduct 4.0 Water Risk Atlas indicators (baseline water stress and related sub-basin indicators; baseline and SSP projections)wri.aqueduct-4.0-water-risk-atlaswww.wri.org
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International as stated in the Aqueduct FAQ…Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International as stated in the Aqueduct FAQ (https://www.wri.org/aqueduct/faq, retrieved 2026-10-12: the Aqueduct 4.0 database is licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License"); the data page lists only "Creative Commons". Not confirmed by Legal/IP
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World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA, formerly WDPA) via Protected Planet (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN)unep-wcmc.wdpawww.protectedplanet.net
Protected Planet terms of use (https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/legal, retrieved 2026-10-12):…Protected Planet terms of use (https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/legal, retrieved 2026-10-12): the materials and derived works may not be put to Commercial Use without the prior written permission of UNEP-WCMC (commercial use covers use by, for or to inform a for-profit entity and revenue generation by individuals or non-profits; UNEP-WCMC decides what is commercial; commercial users are referred to IBAT); no redistribution or sub-licensing of the data, including within derived works, without permission
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World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas (BirdLife International on behalf of the KBA Partnership)birdlife.kbawww.keybiodiversityareas.org
KBA terms of service (https://www.keybiodiversityareas.org/termsofservice, retrieved…KBA terms of service (https://www.keybiodiversityareas.org/termsofservice, retrieved 2026-10-12): KBA data may not be used for Commercial Use (use by, on behalf of, or to inform or assist a commercial entity, or revenue generation by individuals or non-profits) without the prior written approval of the KBA Secretariat; KBA Partners license commercial use through IBAT; no reposting, sublicensing, resale or redistribution, including within derivative works, without written permission; non-commercial conservation, education, scientific analysis and research use permitted without prior permission
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CHIRPS quasi-global gridded precipitation (UC Santa Barbara Climate Hazards Center)ucsb-chc.chirpswww.chc.ucsb.edu
Copyright waiver stated on https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps (retrieved 2026-10-12): "To the…Copyright waiver stated on https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps (retrieved 2026-10-12): "To the extent possible under the law, Pete Peterson has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to CHIRPS. CHIRPS data is in the public domain as registered with Creative Commons." (a CC0-style waiver; SPDX identifier not confirmed by Legal/IP)
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GEM Global Seismic Hazard Map (PGA for a stated probability of exceedance, Global Earthquake Model Foundation)gem.global-seismic-hazard-mapwww.globalquakemodel.org
Not recorded in the repository; the plan records GEM hazard products as expected non-commercial…Not recorded in the repository; the plan records GEM hazard products as expected non-commercial (human gate G2); terms must be confirmed by Legal/IP
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NOAA Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor System (MRMS) on AWS (NOAA Open Data Dissemination)noaa.mrms.awsnoaa-mrms-pds.s3.amazonaws.com
U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can…U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can be used as desired"); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)
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NOAA GOES-16/18/19 ABI and GLM on AWS (NOAA Open Data Dissemination)noaa.goes.awsnoaa-goes19.s3.amazonaws.com
U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can…U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can be used as desired"); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)
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NOAA High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) on AWS (NOAA Open Data Dissemination)noaa.hrrr.awsnoaa-hrrr-bdp-pds.s3.amazonaws.com
U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can…U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can be used as desired"); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)
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WMO Alert Hub / Register of Alerting Authorities CAP official alertswmo.cap.alert-hubalertingauthority.wmo.int
WMO Unified Data Policy (Resolution 1, Cg-Ext(2021)), free and unrestricted exchange, plus each…WMO Unified Data Policy (Resolution 1, Cg-Ext(2021)), free and unrestricted exchange, plus each issuing alerting authority's own terms; approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)
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USGS Water Data APIs (NWIS instantaneous and daily values, OGC API)usgs.waterdataapi.waterdata.usgs.gov
U.S. Public Domain (USGS information policy); approved with conditions by the repository owner…U.S. Public Domain (USGS information policy); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)
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Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL, European Commission JRC)jrc.ghsljeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.euCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
WorldPop gridded population and REST API (University of Southampton)worldpop.populationhub.worldpop.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
INFORM Risk Index (European Commission JRC, Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre)jrc.inform.riskdrmkc.jrc.ec.europa.euCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Statistics Canada Web Data Service (WDS) and 2021 Census Profile (SDMX API, CSD / DA level)statcan.wds-censuswww150.statcan.gc.ca
Statistics Canada Open Licence (statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence, date modified…Statistics Canada Open Licence (statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence, date modified 2025-07-10; no version number stated)
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NRCan CanElevation High Resolution Digital Elevation Model (HRDEM, DTM / DSM; STAC and GeoTIFF)nrcan.canelevation.hrdemdatacube.services.geo.caOpen Government Licence - Canada 2.0 (stated on the open.canada.ca dataset record 957782bf-847c-4644-a757-e383c0057995)APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NRCan Flood Hazard Identification and Mapping Program (FHIMP) flood hazard datanrcan.flood-hazard-mappingnatural-resources.canada.ca
Not stated on the FHIMP programme page (retrieved 2026-10-11); NRCan open.canada.ca records use…Not stated on the FHIMP programme page (retrieved 2026-10-11); NRCan open.canada.ca records use the Open Government Licence - Canada 2.0, but provincial and municipal flood maps produced with FHIMP funding may carry their own licences. Per-dataset check required.
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City of Toronto Open Data portal (CKAN API)toronto.open-datackan0.cf.opendata.inter.prod-toronto.caOpen Government Licence - Toronto 1.0 (open.toronto.ca/open-data-licence, retrieved 2026-10-11)APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Ontario Data Catalogue (data.ontario.ca, CKAN API)ontario.data-cataloguedata.ontario.caOpen Government Licence - Ontario 1.0 (ontario.ca/page/open-government-licence-ontario, retrieved 2026-10-11)APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenStreetMap Foundation standard tile server, BLOCKED for Nexusosm.tiles.osmf-standardoperations.osmfoundation.orgODbL-1.0PROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
OpenStreetMap US community tile service (default tiles of the OSM Americana style), BLOCKED for Nexusosm-us.tile-servicetiles.openstreetmap.usODbL-1.0PROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
OSM Americana map style (CC0 style code, drawn on the self-hosted OpenMapTiles archive)osm.americana.stylegithub.comCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenMapTiles vector tile schema and cartographic designopenmaptiles.schemagithub.comCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Shortbread vector tile schema (VersaTiles basemap schema)shortbread.schemashortbread-tiles.orgCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Protomaps basemap daily planet builds (PMTiles, ODbL produced work), copied to Nexus storageprotomaps.basemap.daily-buildsmaps.protomaps.comODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Protomaps hosted Tile API, BLOCKED (commercial use requires paid sponsorship)protomaps.api.hostedprotomaps.comODbL-1.0PROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
MapLibre demo tiles and style, BLOCKED (demo / CI set containing CC BY-NC-SA imagery)maplibre.demotilesgithub.comLicenseRef-Mixed-Including-CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0PROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
Overture Maps base theme (land, water, land use, infrastructure; GeoParquet, ODbL family)overture.basedocs.overturemaps.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Overture Maps transportation theme (segments, connectors; GeoParquet, ODbL family)overture.transportationdocs.overturemaps.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Overture Maps divisions theme (administrative divisions and boundaries; GeoParquet, ODbL family)overture.divisionsdocs.overturemaps.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Overture Maps addresses theme, BLOCKED until a per-source licence gate existsoverture.addressesdocs.overturemaps.orgPer-source ("All carry permissive open licenses. Some have special terms or require attribution."); not uniformLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Overture official PMTiles (overturemaps-extras bucket), BLOCKED for production by the publisheroverture.pmtiles.inspectiondocs.overturemaps.orgLicenseRef-Overture-Per-ThemePROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
Natural Earth vector and raster data, all scales (1:10m, 1:50m, 1:110m), bundled same-originnaturalearth.all-scaleswww.naturalearthdata.comLicenseRef-Public-Domain-Natural-EarthAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints (permissive family)microsoft.global-ml-building-footprintsgithub.comCDLA-Permissive-2.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Google Open Buildings v3 polygons (used under CC BY 4.0, permissive family)google.open-buildings.v3sites.research.googleCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Google Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal dataset, BLOCKED (licence not stated on the retrieved page)google.open-buildings.temporalsites.research.googleLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
GEBCO global bathymetric grid (self-hosted bathymetry / hillshade tiles)gebco.gridwww.gebco.netLicenseRef-Public-Domain-GEBCOAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenAerialMap / Open Imagery Network imagery (per-image COGs, CC BY 4.0)openaerialmap.oinopenaerialmap.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
EOxCloudless / Sentinel-2 cloudless mosaics (all years), BLOCKED (commercial use needs an EOX licence)eox.sentinel2-cloudlesscloudless.eox.atLicenseRef-EOX-Commercial-Attribution-RestrictedUse-1.2PROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
Mapzen / AWS Terrain Tiles (Terrarium, multi-source), BLOCKED (EU-DEM component licence not stated)aws.terrain-tiles.mapzenregistry.opendata.awsLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
OpenSeaMap seamark chart tiles, BLOCKED (no tile usage policy published; render seamarks from the OSM planet instead)openseamap.chart-tileswiki.openstreetmap.orgCC-BY-SA-2.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
OpenRailwayMap tile servers, BLOCKED for for-profit use by the operatoropenrailwaymap.tileswiki.openstreetmap.orgCC-BY-SA-2.0PROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
Wikimedia Maps tile service, BLOCKED (Wikimedia projects only)wikimedia.maps.tilesfoundation.wikimedia.orgODbL-1.0PROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
Who's On First gazetteer, BLOCKED until a per-source licence gate existswhosonfirst.gazetteerwhosonfirst.org
Per-source (CC BY 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0, CC0, MPL-2.0, Open Government Licences, custom terms, some…Per-source (CC BY 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0, CC0, MPL-2.0, Open Government Licences, custom terms, some sources with no licence link)
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OpenAddresses aggregated address data, BLOCKED until a per-source licence gate existsopenaddresses.globalgithub.comPer-source; the data "is not relicensed from the original sources" and "Individual sources will have their own licenses"LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
GeoNames gazetteer (daily dumps, self-hosted)geonames.gazetteerwww.geonames.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
USGS The National Map basemap services and data (US public domain)usgs.national-mapwww.usgs.govLicenseRef-US-Public-DomainAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products (CORINE, high-resolution layers, global land products)copernicus.clms.landland.copernicus.euLicenseRef-Copernicus-Data-PolicyAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
IMF data services (DataMapper, SDMX: WEO/IFS)imf.datadata.imf.org"IMF terms — attribution required" (adapter string; terms version not recorded)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
WHO Global Health Observatory (OData API)who.ghowww.who.int"WHO CC BY-NC-SA / terms" (adapter string; not verified)PROHIBITEDPROHIBITED
FAOSTAT statistical databasefao.faostatwww.fao.org
CC BY 4.0 unless the dataset metadata states otherwise; third-party series excluded (FAO…CC BY 4.0 unless the dataset metadata states otherwise; third-party series excluded (FAO database terms of use, https://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use/en/, read 2026-10-19); the earlier adapter string read CC BY-NC-SA
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UNHCR Refugee Data Finder APIunhcr.refugee-statisticswww.unhcr.org"CC BY 4.0" (adapter string; not verified)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
ACLED Armed Conflict Location & Event Dataacled.eventsacleddata.com
ACLED End User License Agreement (EULA), "Last Updated 8 July 2025" (retrieved 2026-10-12; not…ACLED End User License Agreement (EULA), "Last Updated 8 July 2025" (retrieved 2026-10-12; not an open licence and not yet reviewed by Legal/IP)
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UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset (GED) and Candidate Events (Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University)ucdp.geducdp.uu.seCC-BY-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
DesInventar disaster loss databases (UNDRR)undrr.desinventarwww.desinventar.net"DesInventar / UNDRR terms / fixture metadata" (connector string)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
IPC Integrated Food Security Phase Classificationipc.classificationwww.ipcinfo.org"IPC public" (connector string; terms not recorded)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
FEWS NET Famine Early Warning Systems Network datafewsnet.datafews.net"FEWS NET terms / fixture metadata" (connector string)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
NGFS climate scenarios (IIASA NGFS Scenario Explorer)ngfs.scenariosdata.ece.iiasa.ac.atNot recorded in the repository; scenario-explorer terms must be recorded by Legal/IP per phaseLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
JRC global flood depth-damage functions (Huizinga, de Moel, Szewczyk 2017, EUR 28552 EN)jrc.global-flood-depth-damagepublications.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Not recorded in the repository; the report and its database are JRC publications whose reuse…Not recorded in the repository; the report and its database are JRC publications whose reuse terms (EC legal notice or a dataset-specific licence) must be confirmed by Legal/IP
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International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 5 (ISIC Rev.5), United Nations Statistics Divisionun.isic-rev5unstats.un.org
United Nations publication; reuse terms not recorded in the repository. The UN website terms of…United Nations publication; reuse terms not recorded in the repository. The UN website terms of use page (un.org) could not be retrieved when this row was written (HTTP 403), so no licence text was read. Legal/IP must record the UN terms of use and any ISIC-specific copyright statement
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Earth Index embeddings (Earth Genome; SoftCon, 384-d, Sentinel-2 annual mosaics, GeoParquet points)earthgenome.earth-index.embeddingssource.coopCC-BY-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Panoramax street-level pictures (federated instances; per-picture licence)panoramax.street-level.picturesapi.panoramax.xyzPer picture as stated by the originating instance (etalab-2.0 or CC-BY-SA-4.0 observed 2026-10-12)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Mapillary street-level images (Graph API v4)mapillary.street-level.imageswww.mapillary.comCC-BY-SA-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
NASA ICESat-2 ATLAS products ATL03, ATL06 and ATL08 (NSIDC DAAC)nasa.icesat2.atlasnsidc.orgNASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
NASA GEDI footprint products L2A, L2B (LP DAAC) and L4A (ORNL DAAC)nasa.gedi.footprintsgedi.umd.eduNASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
NOAA GFS forecast (global 0.25 degree, 0-16 day) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.2.7)dynamical.noaa-gfs-forecastdynamical.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA GFS analysis (global 0.25 degree, hourly) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.1.0)dynamical.noaa-gfs-analysisdynamical.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA GEFS ensemble forecast (global, 31 members, 0-35 day) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.2.0)dynamical.noaa-gefs-forecast-35-daydynamical.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA GEFS analysis (global 0.25 degree) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.1.2)dynamical.noaa-gefs-analysisdynamical.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA HRRR forecast (CONUS 3 km, 0-48 hour) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.1.0)dynamical.noaa-hrrr-forecast-48-hourdynamical.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA HRRR analysis (CONUS 3 km, hourly) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.2.0)dynamical.noaa-hrrr-analysisdynamical.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA MRMS CONUS hourly precipitation analysis (0.01 degree) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.3.0)dynamical.noaa-mrms-conus-analysis-hourlydynamical.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
ECMWF IFS ENS forecast (global 0.25 degree, 51 members, 0-15 day) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.1.0)dynamical.ecmwf-ifs-ens-forecast-15-day-0-25-degreedynamical.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
ECMWF AIFS Single forecast (global 0.25 degree, 0-15 day) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.1.0)dynamical.ecmwf-aifs-single-forecastdynamical.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
DWD ICON-EU forecast (Europe, 0-5 day) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.2.0)dynamical.dwd-icon-eu-forecast-5-daydynamical.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
CelesTrak GP orbital element sets (OMM JSON) for the Maps satellite layercelestrak.gp.elementscelestrak.orgCelesTrak usage policy (free public GP data; attribution to CelesTrak; one download per group per 2-hour update cycle)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
SGP4 verification element sets and reference states (Vallado, Crawford, Hujsak, Kelso, AIAA 2006-6753)aiaa-2006-6753.sgp4-verificationcelestrak.orgPublished verification data accompanying the AIAA 2006-6753 paper; no explicit licence statedLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDPROHIBITED
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program GeoJSON summary feeds for the Maps live earthquake layerusgs.earthquake.summary-feedsearthquake.usgs.gov
U.S. Government work (public domain); USGS asks that it be acknowledged as the source; approved…U.S. Government work (public domain); USGS asks that it be acknowledged as the source; approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-20 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-20-owner-hex-coherence, adopting the KEEP decision in docs/legal/LICENCE_DECISIONS_AND_AUDIT_2026-10-19.md)
APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
USGS ShakeMap event products (grid.xml MMI / PGA grid and MMI contours) for live event response and exposure accumulationusgs.shakemap.event-productsearthquake.usgs.gov
U.S. Government work (public domain); USGS asks that it be acknowledged as the source; approved…U.S. Government work (public domain); USGS asks that it be acknowledged as the source; approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-16 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-16-owner-hex-integrations)
APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NOAA NHC / CPHC tropical cyclone advisory GIS (active storms, wind swath, forecast wind radii, forecast cone) for live event responsenoaa.nhc.advisory-giswww.nhc.noaa.gov
U.S. Government work (NOAA/NWS), public domain; not to be modified and presented as official…U.S. Government work (NOAA/NWS), public domain; not to be modified and presented as official government material; no endorsement implied; approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-16 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-16-owner-hex-integrations)
APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NASA FIRMS near-real-time active fire detections (area API, VIIRS / MODIS) for the Maps live fire layernasa.firms.area-active-firesfirms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov
NASA Earth science data and information policy (no restriction on use; citation requested);…NASA Earth science data and information policy (no restriction on use; citation requested); FIRMS transaction limits per MAP_KEY
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GTFS-Realtime vehicle positions from feeds registered by an administrator (per agency) for the Maps transit layergtfs-rt.tenant-registered-vehicle-positionsgtfs.orgPer agency feed licence (recorded in the Geo Provider Registry licence acknowledgement note for each feed)LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Fintraffic Digitraffic marine AIS positions and vessel metadata (Finnish AIS reporting area) for the Maps live vessel layerfintraffic.digitraffic.marine-aiswww.digitraffic.fiCC-BY-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Fintraffic Digitraffic road weather camera stations and preset images for the Maps live traffic camera layerfintraffic.digitraffic.road-weathercamwww.digitraffic.fiCC-BY-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
IGN LiDAR HD classified point clouds (France; COPC LAZ, Lambert-93, IGN69 heights)ign.lidar-hd.point-cloudswww.data.gouv.fretalab-2.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) LiDAR as Entwine Point Tiles (AWS Open Data, usgs-lidar-public)usgs.3dep.eptregistry.opendata.awsLicenseRef-US-Government-Public-DomainLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland AHN5 point clouds (LAZ per map sheet, RD New + NAP, EPSG:7415)ahn.ahn5.point-cloudswww.ahn.nlCC0-1.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Fields of the World global field boundaries (PRUE model predictions on Sentinel-2, GeoParquet partitioned by country)ftw.global-field-boundariessource.coopCC-BY-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Public GIS portal directory (US federal, 50 states + DC, cities, counties, regional bodies; HUB Ocean Ocean Data Platform)gis-portal-directoryplatform/source-registry/gis-portal-directory.yamlNOASSERTIONLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
GTFS Schedule (static) transit feeds uploaded by a workspace or read from a registered agency feed URL, for the transit feed registry and transit plansgtfs-static.tenant-registered-schedule-feedsgtfs.org
Per agency feed licence, declared by the registering tenant per feed version (SPDX id or terms…Per agency feed licence, declared by the registering tenant per feed version (SPDX id or terms URL) and recorded with its attribution text
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Open-Meteo weather and flood API data (forecast, archived forecasts, GloFAS river discharge)open-meteo.weather-flood-dataopen-meteo.comCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSPROHIBITED
NASA GIBS WMTS imagery (EPSG:4326) for the Water Nexus mapnasa.gibs.water-layersgibs.earthdata.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
GPM IMERG precipitation rate (daily and half-hourly, near real time) via NASA GIBSnasa.gpm.imerggpm.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
VIIRS near-real-time products via NASA GIBS: Global Flood Product (3-day), land surface temperature, NDSI snow cover, corrected reflectancenasa.lance.viirs-waterwww.earthdata.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
SMAP Level 4 analysed soil moisture (surface, root zone) and snow mass via NASA GIBSnasa.smap.l4nsidc.orgCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
GHRSST MUR sea surface temperature anomaly (MUR25) and sea ice concentration (MUR) via NASA GIBSnasa.podaac.ghrsst-murpodaac.jpl.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
GRACE and GRACE-FO JPL mascon liquid water equivalent thickness anomaly (monthly) via NASA GIBSnasa.podaac.grace-fo-mascongrace.jpl.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
GLDAS Noah land surface model underground soil moisture (monthly) via NASA GIBSnasa.gesdisc.gldasldas.gsfc.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NASA Blue Marble shaded relief and bathymetry (static composite) via NASA GIBSnasa.earth-observatory.blue-marbleearthobservatory.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003 greyscale shaded relief via NASA GIBSnasa-meti.aster-gdem-v3doi.orgCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NASA GIBS WMTS imagery (EPSG:4326) for the Energy, Food, Health and Biodiversity Nexus mapsnasa.gibs.field-layersgibs.earthdata.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NASA GIBS reference layers (Coastlines, Reference_Features, Reference_Labels), OpenStreetMap-derived, EPSG:3857nasa.gibs.reference-osmgibs.earthdata.nasa.govODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights (daily VNP46A2 gap-filled radiance; 2016 composite) via NASA GIBSnasa.laads.black-marbleblackmarble.gsfc.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
FIRMS VIIRS 375 m active fires and thermal anomalies (near real time, vector tiles) via NASA GIBSnasa.lance.firmsfirms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
MERRA-2 reanalysis monthly incident shortwave over land and dust surface PM2.5 via NASA GIBSnasa.gmao.merra2gmao.gsfc.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
MODIS and VIIRS atmosphere products (aerosol optical depth, cloud fraction) via NASA GIBSnasa.modis-viirs.atmospherewww.earthdata.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
MODIS land products (NDVI, EVI, gross primary production, IGBP land cover) via NASA GIBSnasa.modis-viirs.landlpdaac.usgs.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OMI tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (Aura) and OMPS aerosol index (Suomi NPP) via NASA GIBSnasa.gesdisc.aura-omi-ompsdisc.gsfc.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
MODIS Aqua ocean colour chlorophyll-a (Level 2) via NASA GIBSnasa.obdaac.ocean-coloroceancolor.gsfc.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
WRI Global Power Plant Database v1.3.0 (2021) for the Energy Nexus mapwri.global-power-plant-databasedatasets.wri.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
WRI Aqueduct 4.0 baseline water risk (2023 release) summarised to hexagons for the Water and Food Nexus mapswri.aqueduct-4www.wri.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
SEDAC Gridded Population of the World v4.11 population density (2020) via NASA GIBS for the Health Nexus mapsedac.gpw-v4doi.orgCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NASA GIBS WMTS imagery (EPSG:3857) for the live, observed and reference layers of the public context mapsnasa.gibs.context-live-layersgibs.earthdata.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NASA SEDAC settlement and urban heat layers via NASA GIBS (HBASE 2010, urban expansion to 2030, urban heat island 2013)sedac.context-urban-layersgibs.earthdata.nasa.govCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenStreetMap-derived place names and borders rendered by NASA GIBS (Reference_Labels_15m)osm.gibs-reference-labelsgibs.earthdata.nasa.govODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Open-Meteo free API on the three non-profit public sites (forecast ensemble, air quality, flood, marine, ERA5 archive)open-meteo.public-pagesopen-meteo.comCC-BY-4.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSPROHIBITED
NASA POWER daily point meteorology and solar data (public context maps)nasa.powerpower.larc.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue (JSON and CSV feeds) for the Technology and Digital Systems faculty incident timelinecisa.kev-cataloguewww.cisa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map geocoded cable and landing-station data (not licensed; recorded so it is not used by accident)telegeography.submarine-cable-mapwww.submarinecablemap.com
Underlying geocoded data: paid annual licence only ('With an annual license, you can use these…Underlying geocoded data: paid annual licence only ('With an annual license, you can use these data sets for interactive maps, data visualizations, and more', https://www2.telegeography.com/license-geocoded-map-data; 'Access to the underlying databases remains restricted to paying subscribers', https://www2.telegeography.com/cite-telegeography-map, both read 2026-10-17). Public map images: 'Any reference to a TeleGeography map, URL, or any related screen capture' is CC BY-SA 4.0 with credit; 'TeleGeography's interactive cable map is not an embeddable resource' (same page).
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OpenStreetMap submarine and terrestrial communication cables (communication=line features), build-time extract for the Technology and Digital Systems faculty twinosm.submarine-cableswww.openstreetmap.orgODbL-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
United Nations Treaty Collection (treaties.un.org): status of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General and treaty membership (not admitted; UN terms)un.treaty-collectiontreaties.un.org
Terms and Conditions of Use of United Nations Web Sites…Terms and Conditions of Use of United Nations Web Sites (https://www.un.org/en/about-us/terms-of-use, linked from the treaties.un.org footer, read 2026-10-17): permission to download and copy materials is 'for the User's personal, non-commercial use, without any right to resell or redistribute them or to compile or create derivative works therefrom' without permission; UN copyright notice (https://www.un.org/en/about-us/copyright, read 2026-10-17): 'All rights reserved' and no material 'may be used, reproduced or transmitted ... except as provided for in the Terms and Conditions of Use of United Nations Web Sites, without permission in writing from the publisher'
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UNdata (United Nations Statistics Division data portal) series on the Risk Academy non-profit public pagesun.data.public-pagesdata.un.org
UNdata terms of use (https://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=UNdataUse, read 2026-10-17): 'All…UNdata terms of use (https://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=UNdataUse, read 2026-10-17): 'All data and metadata provided on UNdata's website are available free of charge' and 'may be copied freely, duplicated and further distributed provided that UNdata is cited as the reference'; no commercial or non-commercial distinction and no automated-access restriction stated on the page
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NASA SEDAC Global Agricultural Lands: Croplands, 2000 (CIESIN_SEDAC_AGLANDS_CROP2000 v1.0) for the Systems and Nexus Studies faculty twinsedac.aglands-croplands-2000doi.org
NASA CMR use constraints for the collection…NASA CMR use constraints for the collection (https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/collections.umm_json?keyword=Global%20Agricultural%20Lands%20Croplands%202000, read 2026-10-17): 'Users are free to use, copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work for commercial and non-commercial purposes, without restriction, as long as clear attribution of the source is provided'; no LicenseURL or LicenseText field
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USGS ShakeMap and PAGER event products (event detail GeoJSON, ShakeMap grid and MMI contours, PAGER alert level and exposure) on the Risk Academy non-profit public pagesusgs.shakemap-pager.public-pagesearthquake.usgs.gov
U.S. Government work, public domain ('USGS-authored or produced data and information are…U.S. Government work, public domain ('USGS-authored or produced data and information are considered to be in the U.S. Public Domain'; 'When using information from USGS information products, publications, or websites, we ask that proper credit be given', https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits, read 2026-10-17)
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Terrain Tiles (Terrarium PNG, elevation-tiles-prod on the AWS Registry of Open Data) as the browser-direct 3D terrain and hillshade of the Risk Academy twin buildersaws.terrain-tiles.academy-publicelevation-tiles-prod.s3.amazonaws.comLicenseRef-Terrain-Tiles-Composite-OpenAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
NASA GIBS WMTS imagery (EPSG:3857) for the raster studio of the Risk Academy twin builders: true colour, sea surface temperature, land surface temperature, snow, sea ice, aerosols, night lights, precipitation, root-zone soil moisture, monthly air temperature and terrestrial water storagenasa.gibs.academy-engine-layersgibs.earthdata.nasa.govCC0-1.0APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) API (api.first.org) as a browser-direct input of the Risk Academy vulnerability triage generatorfirst.epss.academy-publicapi.first.orgLicenseRef-FIRST-EPSS-Free-UseAPPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONSALLOWED
OpenAlex scholarly graph (works, authors, institutions, sources, topics)openalex.worksopenalex.orgCC0-1.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Crossref REST API (bibliographic metadata of registered works)crossref.rest-apiapi.crossref.org
Bibliographic metadata, almost none of it subject to copyright, usable for any purpose; some…Bibliographic metadata, almost none of it subject to copyright, usable for any purpose; some abstracts may be subject to publisher or author copyright (crossref.org REST API documentation, read 2026-10-19)
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Wikidata structured data (Query Service and dumps)wikidata.cc0www.wikidata.orgCC0-1.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) data via the Atmosphere Data Storecopernicus.cams.adsads.atmosphere.copernicus.euCC-BY-4.0LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIREDLEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED

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