Geospace Environmental Datasets

GEOSPACE Geospatial Metadata Catalog v1.10.0 This archive documents a comprehensive catalog of geospatial datasets curated for environmental modeling, ecological analysis, and human impact assessment across the continental United States (CONUS). The catalog provides complete metadata and processing capabilities for 205 variables across 13 data sources: MODIS Satellite Data (4 variables) Land surface temperature, vegetation indices (NDVI, EVI), and forest cover ECMWF ERA5 Reanalysis (14 variables) Temperature, precipitation, pressure, humidity, wind components, and atmospheric parameters GridMET Meteorological Data (17 variables) Climate variables, fire weather indices, drought indicators, and evapotranspiration CAMS Air Pollution Data (6 variables) PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO, and ground-level ozone from Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service; high-resolution atmospheric composition data for air quality analysis EPA AQS – US Environmental Protection Agency (7 variables) Air quality data for PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO, O3, and Lead (Pb) SVI – Social Vulnerability Index (27 variables) Overall vulnerability scores, theme-specific rankings (Socioeconomic, Household, Minority, Housing), and detailed demographic percentiles from CDC/ATSDR COI – Child Opportunity Index (36 variables) Z-scores, quintiles, and ranks across Education, Health/Environment, and Social/Economic domains at National, State, and Metro norms PLACES – CDC Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates (40 variables) ZCTA-level health data across 6 categories: Health Outcomes (12), Prevention (9), Health Risk Behaviors (4), Disabilities (7), Health Status (3), and Health-Related Social Needs (5); includes 95% confidence intervals for all measures FIRMS – NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (16 variables) Active fire detections from MODIS (1km, 2000–present) and VIIRS (375m, 2012–present) satellites; 10 raw detection variables and 6 aggregated summary variables with spatial aggregation to County/ZCTA/State STORMS – NOAA Storm Events Database (12 variables) Event-based severe weather records (1950–present) including event type, timestamp, location, property and crop damage estimates, fatalities, injuries, and storm magnitude from NOAA NCEI Wildfire PM – Stanford ECHO Lab Smoke PM2.5 (1 variable) Daily wildfire smoke PM2.5 concentrations (µg/m³) at 10km grid, county, census tract, and ZCTA levels (2006–2020); statistical machine learning reanalysis fusing ground monitoring with NOAA HMS and satellite inputs (Childs et al. 2022) PRISM – Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (11 variables) High-resolution CONUS gridded climate time series (4km, 1895–present) and 30-year normals (800m/4km) for precipitation, temperature, dew point, vapor pressure deficit, and solar radiation from Oregon State University. PM25_COMPONENTS_HARVARD – Harvard Annual PM2.5 Chemical Components (15 variables) Annual mean ambient PM2.5 major chemical components (EC, NH4+, NO3-, OC, SO42- in µg/m³) and trace elements (Br, Ca, Cu, Fe, K, Ni, Pb, Si, V, Zn in ng/m³) across CONUS at 50-m urban / 1-km non-urban grids and Census geographies (state, county, tract, ZCTA, block group, ZIP code area, block) for 2000–2019 from Harvard Dataverse (NSAPH/CAFE). Enhanced Features in v1.10.0: Added pm25_components_harvard module supporting automated download and Parquet/GeoPackage processing for 15 annual PM2.5 chemical components across 9 CONUS Census divisions (50-m urban / 1-km non-urban grids) and 7 aggregated Census/ZIP geographies (2000–2019). Expanded metadata catalog to 205 variables across 13 modules. This catalog serves as both a reference document for researchers and a foundation for the GEOSPACE processing framework, enabling automated download and analysis-ready data preparation across multiple Earth observation, climate, atmospheric composition, health, fire, extreme weather, and socioeconomic data sources.