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Trust, rights and status

Trust, rights and status

Who publishes Systems Science and Modelling, what is known and how it is labelled, how data rights are protected, and the platform's current status.

Open Corrections and concerns Back to Systems Science and Modelling
In this dossier7 parts
  1. 01In briefThe short answer
  2. 02StatusWhat the platform is, today
  3. 03Integrity in this fieldWhere systems modelling evidence is most often misused
  4. 04SafeguardsHow trust is protected
  5. 05Privacy and accessibilityYour data and your access
  6. 06Key termsTerms used on this page
  7. 07SourcesWhere this page's references lead

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01In brief

The short answer.

Trust, rights and status at Systems Science and Modelling is the public record of who publishes the platform, how its results are labelled, how data rights are protected and what the platform is today. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) publishes it and controls the personal data it holds. Being named, listed or published on the platform is not an endorsement, certification or approval.

02Canvas

Report to outcome.

Canvas · report to outcomeDesign, not a record
How a correction moves on Systems Science and ModellingA report is acknowledged and triaged; a reviewer not involved in the original work assesses it; the outcome is a new version with its history or a reasoned decline, and the reporter is told either way. Design of the workflow, not a record.

Fig.How a reported error is reviewed and corrected. Design, not a record.

03Geography

People and exposure in North America.

For trust, rights and status, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on true-colour imagery, night lights and flood water with relief in 3D, framed on North America; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.

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Layers 3

People and exposure, for this page

Latest available

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

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For trust, rights and status, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on true-colour imagery, night lights and flood water with relief in 3D, framed on North America; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.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 · Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2ASources 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
  • 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 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
  • 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). CC BY 4.0
  • 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 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). 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): Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), Microsoft Planetary Computer
  • Optional layers (35 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

  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Precipitation rate, daily mean: GPM IMERG, NASA GES DISC · 12 Oct 2026

04Status

What the platform is, today.

  • Systems Science and Modelling is in development. Its pages set out its scope and how it works, and its activities, records and services are published here as each one opens.
  • The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
  • GCRI is a research, development and policy institution. It is not a regulator, and it does not certify, license or approve; its findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
05Integrity in this field

Where systems modelling evidence is most often misused.

  • Model code and data are published where licences allow.
  • Assumptions are listed with results.
  • Models are not presented as forecasts.
  • Negative validation results are published.
06Safeguards

How trust is protected.

Evidence

Labelled results

Every result is labelled by kind of evidence, with its uncertainty.

Rights

Data rights

Data is used on the terms its owners set, and restricted data stays restricted.

Corrections

Open to challenge

Corrections and concerns

07Privacy and accessibility

Your data and your access.

Enquiries are used to answer them and to keep a record. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation is the controller under its own privacy notice; write to privacy@therisk.global.

We aim to make these pages usable by everyone. If something is hard to use, write to contact@therisk.global and tell us the page and the barrier.

08Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

TermDefinition
Evidence labelA tag on an assertion naming the kind of evidence behind it, such as observed, officially reported or modelled.
Personal dataAny information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, directly or indirectly, such as a name, an identification number, location data or an online identifier, as the EU General Data Protection Regulation defines it.
Claim ceilingThe strongest statement a page may make about a capability, set by the evidence on record; without operating evidence a page describes a design or an integration, never readiness.
Conflict of interestA situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review.
09Sources

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.

10Pages

Pages in Trust, rights and status.

Page

Corrections and concerns

11Questions

Questions and answers.

Does listing on the platform imply endorsement?
No. Being named, listed or published on the platform is not an endorsement, certification or approval.
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