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Open geospatial datasets, research software and Earth Engine apps, released so that students, researchers and planners can build on them.

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Datasets

Published research datasets, free to download.

Dataset

WHiCH (Western Himalaya Canopy Height) Map 2020, Pakistan

Adeel Ahmad, Srikumar Sastry, Aayush Dhakal, Subash Khanal, Alex Levering, Hammad Gilani and Nathan Jacobs

Zenodo, 2025 · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18056032

10 m canopy height map of Pakistan’s western Himalayas for 2020, produced by fusing GEDI LiDAR with Sentinel-2 imagery in a deep learning model.

Dataset

Fields of The World (FTW): Global Agricultural Field Boundary Benchmark

Hannah Kerner, Snehal Chaudhari, Aninda Ghosh, Caleb Robinson, Adeel Ahmad, Eddie Choi, Nathan Jacobs, Chris Holmes, Matthias Mohr, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M Lavista Ferres and Jennifer Marcus

Benchmark dataset, 2025 (AAAI-25)

Over 1.6 million labelled field parcels across 24 countries on four continents for training and testing field boundary segmentation models.

Software and Platforms (GeoScape Analytics Lab)

Open software and platforms built at the GeoScape Analytics Lab (GSAL).

Software / platform

GRIPS: Geospatial Research Index of Pakistan Studies

GeoScape Analytics Lab (GSAL); project directed by Adeel Ahmad

Software, v1.0.0, 2026 · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22807356 · MIT License

A free literature-discovery tool that searches GIS, remote sensing, Earth and environmental science papers, filtered to Pakistan-focused research by default.

Google Earth Engine Apps

Interactive Google Earth Engine apps for exploring the datasets.

Earth Engine app

WHiCH Map 2020 Viewer

Adeel Ahmad

Google Earth Engine App

Interactive viewer for the Western Himalaya canopy height map.

Earth Engine app

Pakistan Soil Erosion 2005–2015

Adeel Ahmad

Google Earth Engine App

Explore national soil erosion estimates and their change between 2005 and 2015.