GLOBE Land Cover Data

Adopt a Pixel 3km

Building on the GLOBE mission to promote student and citizen science research, the Adopt a Pixel 3 km framework was created to take advantage of the personal connection and familiarity citizen scientists have with their local landscapes. Adopt a Pixel applies a nested sampling framework to GO-obtained data, thus enabling quantitative and statistical analysis. The Adopt a Pixel project was piloted with 74 high school research interns in summer 2020 as part of the STEM Enhancement in Earth Sciences summer research internship experience, hosted by Texas Space Grant and the University of Texas, Austin.

The Adopt a Pixel 3km data set is described in the article:

Low, R., Nelson, P., Soeffing, C., Clark, A., & SEES 2020 Mosquito Mappers Research Team. (2021). Adopt a Pixel 3 km: A Multiscale Data Set Linking Remotely Sensed Land Cover Imagery With Field Based Citizen Science Observation . Frontiers in Climate, (Vol 3). DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2021.658063  

Data Citation: Nelson, P., Low, R., Soeffing, C., Clark, A., & SEES 2020 Mosquito Mappers Research Team. (2021). Adopt a Pixel 3 km: A Multiscale Data Set Linking Remotely Sensed Land Cover Imagery with Field Based Citizen Science Observation (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5542310

Acknowledgments: These data were obtained from NASA and the GLOBE Program and are freely available for use in research, publications and commercial applications. When data from GLOBE are used in a publication, we request this acknowledgment be included: "These data were obtained from the GLOBE Program and enriched by authors." Please include such statements, either where the use of the data or other resource is described, or within the acknowledgments section of the publication.

Supporting links:

Adopt a Pixel 3 km Data Report

Web map of Adopt a Pixel 3km Data

GLOBE Data User Guide

GO on a Trail

The GLOBE Observer (GO) on a Trail Data Collection Challenge ran from June 1st to September 2nd, 2019 with an extended period through October 15th for the corollary Scouts Australia extension. The primary focus area in the United States was along the approximately 4,900 mile Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail (LCNHT)  , but observations could be taken anywhere in a GLOBE country. Read more on the challenge description page. 

The GO on a Trail data set is described in the article:

Kohl H.A., Nelson P.V., Pring J., Weaver K.L., Wiley D.M., Danielson A.B., Cooper R.M., Mortimer H., Overoye D., Burdick A., Taylor S., Haley M., Haley S., Lang J. and Lindblad M.E. (2021). GLOBE Observer and the GO on a Trail Data Challenge: A Citizen Science Approach to Generating a Global Land Cover Land Use Reference Dataset. Frontiers in Climate, 3:620497. DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2021.620497  

Data Citation: Kohl, H.A., Nelson, P.V., Pring, J., GLOBE Land Cover Dataset - GO on Trail 2019, The GLOBE Program, https://observer.globe.gov/get-data/land-cover-data

Acknowledgments: These data were obtained from NASA and the GLOBE Program and are freely available for use in research, publications and commercial applications. When data from GLOBE are used in a publication, we request this acknowledgment be included: "These data were obtained from the GLOBE Program." Please include such statements, either where the use of the data or other resource is described, or within the Acknowledgements section of the publication.

Documentation links:

GO on a Trail Data Challenge - Data Documentation

GLOBE Data User Guide

Technical Report - GLOBE Observer Data: 2016-2019  

Related files:

Images from the GO on a Trail challenge (zipped folder) 

Shapefile for the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail swath (zipped folder)

Shapefile for high potential historic sites along the LCNHT (zipped folder)

Shapefile for Visitor Centers along the LCNHT (zipped folder)

GO on a Trail - Secondary Classifications (CSV)

Related data sets:

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Cover Type (MCD12Q1) Version 6