The GEO Mountains General Inventory is a free online resource that seeks to provide comprehensive metadata related to open datasets and data portals that may be useful in the context of mountainous applications.

Discovering potentially useful mountain datasets and other resources is often a time-consuming and frustrating task that requires speculative web searches or trawling through the vast array of data portals that have proliferated. Alternatively, institutional or legacy knowledge may have to be relied upon. These difficulties take researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers away from their core tasks, and mean that the most suitable and/or latest datasets for a given application may not be consistently used.

With a view to helping alleviate some of these problems, the GEO Mountains General Inventory seeks to provide comprehensive metadata related to open datasets and data portals that may be useful in the context of mountainous applications, as well as the corresponding web links. The Inventory is primarily focused on remotely sensed and modelled datasets spanning multiple disciplines, but also includes a variety of open-source software, model codes, and tools that may be useful. Both regional and global resources are included. 

Contributions to this inventory are very welcome! These may take the form of datasets, data portals, and other resources (e.g., software, tools) that may be useful to the community.

The GEO Mountains General Inventory complements the recently released GEO Mountains Inventory of In Situ Observational Infrastructure, which compiles information on in situ observatories and other infrastructure in the mountains of the world.

Explore the GEO Mountains General Inventory. 

Cover image by G. Poulsen.