United Nations
- United Nations (UN) Geospatial Hub.
- UN Environment Programme World Database on Protected Areas. The most comprehensive global database on protected terrestrial and marine areas. A joint project between UN Environment Programme and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
World Bank
- World Bank World Bank Open Data: Free and open access to global development data. The World Bank Maps can be used to explore and analyze World Bank data.
Columbia University
- Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS):
Data repository offering free public access to a curated collection of marine geophysical data and metadata related to the formation and evolution of the seafloor and sub-seafloor, including specialized community data collections.
Dartmouth College
- Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data at Dartmouth (CRAWDAD): Provides data from real networks and real mobile users to support research on wireless networks and mobile computing. Moved to IEEE DataPort CRAWDAD Collection with new datasets in 2022.
Harvard University
- Harvard University WorldMap is an online, open source mapping platform that began in 2008 with the aim to lower barriers for scholars who wish to explore, visualize, edit, and publish geospatial information. The project has been moved to ArcGIS Online. Contents including:
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- Climate Change Scenarios GIS data portal provides datasets on climate change projections generated by the Community Earth System Models (CESM).
Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK
- The Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia is recognized as one of the world’s leading institutions in the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change. Datasets developed by the Unit are widely used in climate research.