Source and data register

01Sequence

The order things happen in.

01Draftsources cited, labels attached
02Evidence checkevery value traced
03Independent reviewconflicts declared
04Editionpublished with its limits
05Correctiona new version, never a silent edit

02What is recorded

Each source carries five facts.

01

Origin

Who produces the data and how.

02

Access terms

Licence, restrictions and permitted uses.

03

Quality

Coverage, resolution, update frequency and known errors.

04

Provenance

How the data reached the platform and what was changed.

05

Gaps

What is missing and how the gap is handled.

03Canvas

Draft to published version.

Canvas · draft to published versionDesign, not a record

Fig.How a finding is reviewed before it is published. Design, not a record.

04Register

Every source the topic dossiers cite, with its terms.

Source	What it gives	Terms	Used in
CCPS process safety resources	Industry guidance and metrics	Licence per publication	Industrial process safety
CISA industrial control systems advisories	Vulnerabilities and mitigations in control products	Public domain, US government	Industrial cyber resilience
eMARS major accident reporting system (European Commission JRC)	Reported major accidents and lessons	Public, EU terms	Industrial process safety
ENISA reports on industrial and OT security	Threat and good practice analysis	Public, ENISA terms	Industrial cyber resilience
EU Best Available Techniques reference documents	Techniques and emission levels for industries	Public, EU terms	Circular economy and pollution
EU-OSHA reports on digitalisation and occupational safety	Evidence on new technology and worker safety	Public, EU terms	Human machine work
Eurofound European Working Conditions Survey	Job quality, technology use and intensity	Public, Eurofound terms	Human machine work
Eurostat circular economy indicators	Circular material use rate and waste statistics	Open, Eurostat reuse policy	Circular economy and pollution
Eurostat energy statistics	Final energy consumption in industry	Open, Eurostat reuse policy	Industrial energy and water
Eurostat enterprise robot use statistics	Share of firms using industrial and service robots	Open, Eurostat reuse policy	Industrial robotics
Eurostat enterprise technology statistics	Adoption by firm size	Open, Eurostat reuse policy	Technology adoption
Eurostat ICT usage in enterprises and advanced technology modules	Adoption of automation, robotics and data technologies	Open, Eurostat reuse policy	Industrial automation
Evaluations of manufacturing extension programmes	Effects of adoption support	Licence per publication	Technology adoption
FAO AQUASTAT	Water withdrawal by sector	Open, FAO terms	Industrial energy and water
IEA World Energy Balances and industry tracking	Industrial energy use by sector and fuel	Licence per product (to check)	Industrial energy and water
IEC 62443 series	Industrial automation security requirements	Licensed standards, purchase required	Industrial cyber resilience
ILOSTAT	Employment and occupational injury statistics	Open, CC BY 4.0	Human machine work
Industrial decarbonisation roadmaps from governments	Plans and data for heavy industry	Public records, licence per government	Industrial energy and water
Industry association surveys on downtime and maintenance	Reliability practice	Public summaries, terms to check	Industrial automation
International Federation of Robotics World Robotics reports	Installations and density by country and sector	Commercial report; public summaries (to check)	Industrial robotics
ISA and IEC standards for automation (ISA-95, IEC 61131)	Architecture and programming standards	Licensed standards, purchase required	Industrial automation
ISO 10218 and ISO/TS 15066	Robot safety requirements	Licensed standards, purchase required	Industrial robotics
ISO Survey of management system certificates	ISO 50001 certification counts	Public, ISO terms	Industrial energy and water
ISO/ASTM 52900 series	Terminology and standards for additive manufacturing	Licensed standards, purchase required	Materials and manufacturing
Joint agency advisories on threats to operational technology	Actor behaviour and mitigations	Public, terms per agency	Industrial cyber resilience
National labour force surveys	Employment by sector and occupation	Public records, licence per government	Human machine work
National occupational injury statistics	Injuries involving machinery and robots	Public records, licence per government	Industrial robotics
NIST additive manufacturing resources	Measurement science and standards for additive processes	Public domain, US government	Materials and manufacturing
OECD chemical accidents programme	Guidance and lessons learned	Public, OECD terms	Industrial process safety
OECD Employment Outlook and automation studies	Labour effects of automation	Public, OECD terms	Human machine work
OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators	R&D spending by sector	Public, OECD terms	Materials and manufacturing
OECD materials and waste statistics	Material productivity and waste	Public, OECD terms	Circular economy and pollution
OECD studies on technology diffusion and productivity	Evidence on adoption gaps and policies	Public, OECD terms	Technology adoption
OECD studies on the diffusion of digital and automation technologies	Cross-country adoption evidence	Public, OECD terms	Industrial automation
Pollutant release and transfer registers, such as E-PRTR and US TRI	Facility-level releases of pollutants	Public, terms per register	Circular economy and pollution
Published incident reviews from manufacturers	Effects and recovery after incidents	Public records, terms per publisher	Industrial cyber resilience
Regulator recall databases	Recalls by product and cause	Public records, terms per regulator	Materials and manufacturing
Seveso establishment registers (eSPIRS)	Major hazard establishments in Europe	Public, EU terms	Industrial process safety
UN Comtrade robot trade (HS 847950)	Trade in industrial robots	Free access with limits, UN terms	Industrial robotics
UNEP International Resource Panel global material flows database	Material extraction and consumption	Public, UNEP terms	Circular economy and pollution
UNIDO industrial statistics	Manufacturing value added and production by sector	Public, UNIDO terms	Materials and manufacturing
US Census Bureau Annual Business Survey technology modules	Firm adoption of automation and AI	Public domain, US government	Industrial automation
US Chemical Safety Board investigation reports	Detailed investigations of chemical accidents	Public domain, US government	Industrial process safety
World Bank Enterprise Surveys and Firm-level Adoption of Technology survey	Technology use by firms in many countries	Free with registration, World Bank terms	Technology adoption
World Management Survey	Management practice scores across firms and countries	Public, terms to check	Technology adoption

05Geography

Connected activity in Germany.

Night lights, population density and true-colour imagery over Germany, from NASA GIBS. Each layer carries its own date.

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Layers 3

Connected activity, for this page

Latest available

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

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Connected activity, framed on Germany. Layers as NASA publishes them, each with its own date.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · NASA HLS S30Sources 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 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
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 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
MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; 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.
Observed (EO): NASA HLS S30 (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026). 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).
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).
Optional layers (5 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

Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
Enhanced vegetation index, rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra EVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
Vegetation greenness (NDVI), rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra NDVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

06Known gaps

Where the industrial data record is thin.

Near-miss data across firms.
Natech event records.
Data on robot-related incidents.
Industrial water and energy use at site level.

07Status

How the register grows.

Sources are added to the register as they are reviewed. A source is listed only once its terms permit the use described.

08Sources

Where this page's references lead.

The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

09Questions

Questions and answers.

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