Data to support downscaling regional economic activity

This is a collection of open datasets that provide indicators, covariates and validation of downscaled (global) regional economic activity, processed to Parquet format for ease of access directly on cloud object storage.

References

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2024. Global Spatially-Disaggregated Crop Production Statistics Data for 2020 Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SWPENT

Ru, Y., Blankespoor, B., Wood-Sichra, U., Thomas, T.S., You, L., Kalvelagen, E., 2023. Estimating local agricultural gross domestic product (AgGDP) across the world. Earth System Science Data 15, 1357-1387. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1357-2023

Maus, V., Giljum, S., Gutschlhofer, J., Da Silva, D.M., Probst, M., Gass, S.L.B., Luckeneder, S., Lieber, M., McCallum, I., 2020. A global-scale data set of mining areas. Sci Data 7, 289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00624-w

Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2024 release. Available at: https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker/

Kummu, M., Kosonen, M. & Masoumzadeh Sayyar, S. 2025. Downscaled gridded global dataset for gross domestic product (GDP) per capita PPP over 1990–2022. Scientific Data 12: 178. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04487-x

Copernicus Global Dynamic Land Cover. European Union's Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information. https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/global-dynamic-land-cover

Schiavina, M., Melchiorri, M., Pesaresi, M., Politis, P., Carneiro Freire, S.M., Maffenini, L., Florio, P., Ehrlich, D., Goch, K., Carioli, A., Uhl, J., Tommasi, P. and Kemper, T., GHSL Data Package 2023, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2023, ISBN 978-92-68-02341-9, doi:10.2760/098587, JRC133256.

Overture Maps Foundation. 2024. Overture Maps Places v2024-10-23.0 Available at: overturemaps.org

Schlosser, I., Russell, T. 2025. DOSE-WDI v0.3 [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17235586

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