Topic 3a - Accessing Open and Relevant Data
The Copernicus programme from the EU and ESA, along with other disruptive innovations in satellite technology, has opened up vast quantities of free and open data to support new applications. To help navigate and make sense of this data, a range of portals, tools and platforms are emerging to match relevant data to development use cases.
The Climate Change Knowledge Portal from the World Bank, provides global data on historical and future climate, vulnerabilities, and impacts.
Portals from ESA include the ESA CCI Open Data Portal which hosts a suite of Essential Climate Variable datasets produced under the Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme as a single point of access. And the ESA/Copernicus Open Access Hub which provides complete, free and open access to Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-5P user products.
While open data is the first option, there are other options as well, particularly in the development community, where resources on the ground with clients are often limited. So, not every problem can be solved with open data. As a result, commercial data may have to be used to create solutions that are fit for purpose.
Featured Educators:
- Christoph Aubrecht, European Space Agency
- Alvaro Federico Barra, World Bank
- Ana Bucher, World Bank
- Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, (Formerly World Bank)
- Kanta Kumari Rigaud, World Bank
MOOC topics
In this MOOC, each topic is introduced through a video with supporting text.
We have also provided a range of optional further reading, links, and additional resources to help consolidate your learning. Here is a summary of what is available:
Topic links and resources
In each topic, once you have watched the video and read the accompanying text, you will find the following information:
- Optional Further Reading: These are external links to further reading and other resources.
- Featured Images and Featured Animations: Below the text on Topic video page, you will find the featured images and featured animations that were shown in the Topic video.
- Interactives: On the 'Interactives' tab on relevent topic pages, you will find some interactive data viewers (e.g. ESA's Climate from Space tool), allowing you to explore a selection of data relevant to the themes and topics in this MOOC.
Quizzes
- Quizzes: At the end of each Chapter (and in the middle of Chapter 2) there will be a quiz consisting of around five questions. These will help you consolidate your understanding of new topics, but are not scored. The feedback given with answers will also provide you with important information. These quizzes are informal and therefore there is no formal scoring.
Certificate
- Participation certificates are available for this MOOC, you can request one using the form at the end of the course.
- World Bank data infrastructure: shortening the path from data to insights
- World Bank Data Catalog - The Data Catalog is designed to make World Bank's development data easy to find, download, use, and share
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