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Maps of Data and Compute are published here once their data rights are cleared and they have been reviewed. Each shows its time and space reference, its sources and its uncertainty.
01Contents
Released maps in five parts.
02What is shown
Released, referenced and rights-cleared.
- Time and space reference for every view.
- Sources and licence.
- Uncertainty and known limits.
- Version and date of release.
03Geography
Water now worldwide.
Night lights, rain, root-zone soil moisture and true-colour imagery across the world, from NASA GIBS. Each layer carries its own date.
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Layers 4
Water now, for this page
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Latest available
NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth
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Water now, framed on the world.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 · 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 hexagonal 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 hexagonal 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- GPM IMERG precipitation, NASA Precipitation Processing System; distributed by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- SMAP Level 4 soil moisture and snow mass, NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office; distributed by the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal 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 hexagonal 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). doi:10.7927/H49C6VHW. CC BY 4.0
- 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 hexagonal 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). ODbL
- Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- River discharge forecast, 30 days with range (GloFAS via Open-Meteo): Contains modified Copernicus Emergency Management Service information 2026; not a flood warning.
- Past year, daily temperature (ERA5 via Open-Meteo): Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
- Past year, daily temperature and sunshine (NASA POWER): These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program..
- 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 (14 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
- Precipitation rate, daily mean: GPM IMERG, NASA GES DISC · 12 Oct 2026
- Root-zone soil moisture, 0 to 100 cm: SMAP Level 4, NASA NSIDC DAAC · 11 Oct 2026
- True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 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
- Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
04Indicators
What a released map in this field would carry.
| Indicator | Unit | Cadence | Evidence label | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datasets published with an open licence | percent of catalogued datasets | annual | Observed | Public interest data infrastructure |
| Datasets with complete metadata | percent of catalogued datasets | annual | Observed | Public interest data infrastructure |
| Release calendar adherence | percent of releases on schedule | annual | Published statistics | Public interest data infrastructure |
| Completeness of birth and death registration | percent of events registered | annual | Estimated | Public interest data infrastructure |
| Censuses conducted in the round | status by country | per census round | Published statistics | Public interest data infrastructure |
| Funding for national statistical systems | currency units | annual | Reported | Public interest data infrastructure |
| Sustained performance on standard benchmarks | floating point operations per second | twice yearly | Observed | High performance computing |
| Energy efficiency | floating point operations per watt | twice yearly | Observed | High performance computing |
| System utilisation | percent of available node hours used | monthly | Observed | High performance computing |
| Allocation oversubscription | ratio of requested to available hours | per call | Published statistics | High performance computing |
| Research software engineers employed | count | annual | Reported | High performance computing |
| Codes ported to accelerators | percent of major community codes | per assessment | Reported | High performance computing |
| Public sector workloads in cloud | percent of workloads | annual | Reported | Cloud and edge systems |
| Cloud market share of largest providers | percent | annual | Estimated | Cloud and edge systems |
| Cloud regions per country | count | annual | Declared | Cloud and edge systems |
| Workloads with tested exit plans | percent of critical workloads | per assessment | Reported | Cloud and edge systems |
| Data egress charges | currency per gigabyte | per change | Declared | Cloud and edge systems |
| Edge sites deployed | count | annual | Reported | Cloud and edge systems |
| Lead time for accelerator procurement | weeks | per procurement | Observed | Chips and semiconductors |
| Share of national compute on imported accelerators | percent | per assessment | Estimated | Chips and semiconductors |
| Accelerator price per unit of performance | currency per teraflop | per procurement | Estimated | Chips and semiconductors |
| Export control measures affecting computing | count | per change | Published statistics | Chips and semiconductors |
| Hardware age of national systems | years since installation | annual | Observed | Chips and semiconductors |
| Diversity of processor architectures | count of architectures in national systems | per assessment | Observed | Chips and semiconductors |
| Countries with comprehensive data protection law | count | annual | Published statistics | Data rights and trust |
| Data protection complaints received | count | annual | Published statistics | Data rights and trust |
| Projects using trusted research environments | count | annual | Reported | Data rights and trust |
| Outputs checked for disclosure before release | percent of outputs | annual | Observed | Data rights and trust |
| Data sharing agreements with community governance | count | per assessment | Declared | Data rights and trust |
| Public trust in data use | percent of respondents | per survey | Reported | Data rights and trust |
| Published analyses with code and data available | percent of outputs | per audit | Observed | Reproducible pipelines |
| Analyses rerun successfully by a third party | percent of attempted reruns | per audit | Observed | Reproducible pipelines |
| Datasets with persistent identifiers | percent of datasets | annual | Observed | Reproducible pipelines |
| Pipelines with recorded environments | percent of production pipelines | per assessment | Declared | Reproducible pipelines |
| Corrections issued after reproduction checks | count | annual | Observed | Reproducible pipelines |
| Software archived with identifiers | count | annual | Observed | Reproducible pipelines |
| Power usage effectiveness | ratio of total facility to IT energy | annual | Declared | Compute energy water |
| Water usage effectiveness | litres per kilowatt hour of IT energy | annual | Declared | Compute energy water |
| Data centre electricity consumption | terawatt hours | annual | Estimated | Compute energy water |
| Renewable energy share | percent of electricity | annual | Declared | Compute energy water |
| Waste heat reused | megawatt hours | annual | Declared | Compute energy water |
| Data centre share of regional electricity demand | percent | annual | Estimated | Compute energy water |
| Access proposals received and granted | count and success rate | per call | Published statistics | Research infrastructure access |
| Users by institution type and country income group | count | annual | Observed | Research infrastructure access |
| First-time users | percent of users | annual | Observed | Research infrastructure access |
| Training participants | count | annual | Reported | Research infrastructure access |
| Research network bandwidth to institutions | gigabits per second | per assessment | Observed | Research infrastructure access |
| Publications acknowledging facility use | count | annual | Estimated | Research infrastructure access |
05Process
How the process runs.
Process explorer · Process
Released maps: Layers to published map
7 steps·4 stages·1 gate
Process
Released maps: Layers to published map
Layers enter with their rights, are aligned, analysed and checked for uncertainty, then released after public-safe review; a map is a governed spatial claim.
01 Data
- 01Source layers with their rightsDataset · NXS-GRX (canonical data, provenance and risk)Spatial views of The Global Risks Index (NXS-GRX) products sit under the boundary licence gate. Rights classification sets how a layer may be used.
02 Harmonise
- 02Coordinate reference and boundary versionRecord · NXS-EOP (earth observation and digital twins)The area of interest preserves its coordinate reference system, polygon validity and observation support. Boundary versions are kept.
- 03Harmonise units, variables and timeStepUnit metadata, conversion records and transformation logs are required. Alignment is an evidence event, not hidden preprocessing.
03 Analyse and check
- 04Analyse with a recorded processing recipeModel · GIS teamA processing recipe records parameters, calibration, inputs and output lineage. The analysis methods are named in each product's own record.
- 05Spatial uncertainty checkGateSpatial uncertainty is recorded and affects downstream use. A high-uncertainty polygon may suit internal review, not public-safe release.
04 Publish
- 06Spatial metadata bundleRecordThe bundle records boundary type, jurisdiction, geometry version, projection, resolution, source, time window, uncertainty and access class.
- 07Public-safe release of the mapDecisionThe output record names the redactions, uncertainty and public-safe reviewer. A map is a governed spatial claim, never merely a picture.
Spatio-temporal intelligence · Data protocols: semantic, jurisdictional and temporal intelligence · NXS-EOPDesigned programme process, not a record of operation. No cycle has run and every programme is at service level R0. A gate is a programme decision, never a public-authority approval, certification or deployment authorisation. The pages cited are design doctrine.
06Reading the maps
Cautions that apply to data and compute maps.
- Data-centre maps miss undisclosed facilities.
- Grid carbon intensity varies by hour; annual averages mislead.
- Water stress overlays show basin conditions, not facility consumption.
07Status
Releases appear as they are reviewed.
Analysis runs in Foundry; reviewed releases are listed here.
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
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