GLEN — Boettiger Lab Geospatial Datasets

The GLEN catalog is a unified, navigable STAC index of the Boettiger Lab's public, cloud-optimized geospatial datasets, mirrored to Source Cooperative for open access and long-term recoverability.

This repository is the root of the source.coop mirror. Its catalog.json is a STAC Catalog whose child links reach every license-clear collection we publish here — biodiversity, conservation, census, environmental, and infrastructure data in formats optimized for cloud-native analysis (GeoParquet, PMTiles, H3 hex, and COG).

Canonical source

The canonical catalog and data live on the National Research Platform (NRP) S3 store at https://s3-west.nrp-nautilus.io/public-data/stac/catalog.json. This source.coop copy is a public mirror: refreshed weekly, it exists for discoverability and as an off-NRP recovery copy you can point a client straight at. Each mirrored collection keeps its root/parent links pointing at the canonical NRP root, so navigation from this catalog is downward: start at catalog.json and descend into collections and their items.

How to use it

Point any STAC client at the root catalog and walk the tree:

Individual assets (GeoParquet, PMTiles, H3 hex, COG) are queryable directly, e.g. with DuckDB:

Each collection's stac-collection.json documents its own assets, schemas, and usage (including MapLibre source-layer names for PMTiles).

Scope & licensing

This catalog links only the collections that are both catalogued and license-clear to redistribute. Collections under no-redistribution terms (e.g. WDPA / WD-OECM, ICCA, IUCN Red List, HydroBASINS) are intentionally absent from this public mirror and remain available only from the canonical NRP store under their own terms. Licenses vary per collection — see each collection's STAC license field. The child list is regenerated automatically from the mirror scope on every weekly sync, so this catalog always reflects exactly what is currently mirrored.

Provenance

Generated and maintained by boettiger-lab/data-workflows (catalog/sync/source-coop/). The catalog is refreshed by the weekly source-sync job; this README is maintained in-repo.