geoutils-data

Test and example data for GeoUtils.

All data copyright is with the associated download locations. This repo holds modified versions of these data, but we do not claim any rights to them.

Coromandel

Coromandel Peninsula is located in the upper North Island of New Zealand.

points.laz (©Regional Software Holdings Limited (RSHL) – CC BY 4.0)

This point cloud represents data elevation measured by LiDAR technology, distribute by the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment¹. The data was captured between 21 January 2024 and 17 May 2024.

Everest

This site covers the Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain, in the Himalayan mountain range.

LE71400412000304SGS00_B4.tif and LE71400412000304SGS00_RGB.tif (©U.S. Geological Survey)

This two satellite raster images, B4 (red) and RGB of the area, were acquired with Landsat 7 (orthorectified products L2A) on the 30/10/2000 at 30 m spatial resolution.

15_rgi60_glacier_outlines.gpkg (CC BY 4.0)

This vector file, from the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI 6.0)², presents the vector outlines for glaciers and glacier complexes around the area (dates vary but are usually centered around 2000).

Exploradores

Exploradores Glacier is a glacier located on the northeastern slope of Monte San Valentín, in the Chilean Patagonia.

AST_L1A_00303182012144228_Z.tif

The Aster satellite raster elevation data (DEM) of the area at 30 m spatial resolution was computed from stereo images acquired on the 18/03/2012, generated with MicMac³ adapted for ASTER⁴ using ASTER L1A V003 data (VNIR bands) from NASA/JAXA⁵.

17_rgi60_glacier_outlines.gpkg (CC BY 4.0)

This vector file, from the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI 6.0)², presents the vector outlines for glaciers and glacier complexes around the area (dates vary but are usually centered around 2000).

Footnotes

1. Ministry for the Environment, Regional Software Holdings Limited, Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) (2025). Waikato, New Zealand 2024. Collected by Landpro, distributed by OpenTopography and LINZ. https://doi.org/10.5069/G91J980G. Accessed: 2025-06-15. ↩

2. RGI Consortium (2017). Randolph Glacier Inventory – A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines: Version 6.0: Technical Report, Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, Colorado, USA. Digital Media. https://doi.org/10.7265/N5-RGI-60. Accessed: 2025-06-15. ↩ ↩²

3. Rupnik, E., Daakir, M. & Pierrot Deseilligny, M. MicMac – a free, open-source solution for photogrammetry. Open geospatial data, softw. stand. 2, 14 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40965-017-0027-2 ↩

4. Girod, L.; Nuth, C.; Kääb, A.; McNabb, R.; Galland, O. MMASTER: Improved ASTER DEMs for Elevation Change Monitoring. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 704. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9070704 ↩

5. NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. (2001). ASTER Level 1A Data Set - Reconstructed, unprocessed instrument data [Data set]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/AST_L1A.003. Accessed: 2025-06-15. ↩