Description
This dataset includes the inputs and outputs generated in the spatial modeling of CES using social media data for eight mountain parks in Spain and Portugal (Aigüestortes, Sierra de Guadarrama, Ordesa, Peneda-Gerês, Picos de Europa, Sierra de las Nieves, Sierra Nevada and Teide). This spatial modeling is addressed in the article in preparation entitled: "What drives cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas? An AI-assisted answer using social media."
The variables used as inputs to generate the models come from different sources:
-CES presence points come from social media photos (Flickr and Twitter) labeled using AI models and validated by experts. The models used for automatic labeling were Dino v2 and OPENAI's GPT 4.1 model. Consensus was sought on the labels from these two label sources, which showed F1 values above 0.75, and these labels were used as presence data.
The environmental variables used are mainly derived from:
OpenStreetMap (OSM) https://www.openstreetmap.org/
Variables derived from remote sensing
Topographic variables
Current and future climate variables derived from CHELSA (https://chelsa-climate.org/)
Landscape metrics (calculated with Fragstats software https://www.fragstats.org/)
Viewshed
Land use and land cover maps (https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/corine-land-cover)
The models were generated with the maximum entropy (MaxEnt) algorithm using the biomod2 R package, leveraging its suitability for presence-only data, low sample sizes, and mixed predictor types. To address sampling bias, we generated 10 pseudo-absence replicates based on the “target-group background” method. Models were evaluated using AUC-ROC and True Skill Statistic (TSS), with performance validation via 10-fold cross-validation, resulting in 100 runs per model. Ensemble models were created from runs with AUC-ROC > 0.6, using the median for spatial projections of CES and the coefficient of variation to estimate uncertainty. We implemented two modelling approaches: one assuming consistent CES preferences across parks, and another assuming park-specific preferences shaped by local environmental contexts.
Table 1. Categories used in social media photo tagging: Stoten, based on the scientific framework proposed by Moreno-Llorca et al. (2020) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140067).
Stoten
Cultural
Fauna/Flora
Gastronomy
Nature & Landscape
Not relevant
Recreational
Religious
Rural tourism
Sports
Sun and beach
Urban
Table 2. Table of contents of the dataset
Folder
format
Description
Inputs
Base layers
by National Park
100-meter grid
grid_wgs84_atrib
.shp
100 x 100 meter grid for each of the studied national parks that cover the study area
Biosphere Reserve
MAB_wgs84
.shp
Biosphere reserve layers present in each of the national parks studied
Municipality
Municipality
.shp
Layers of municipalities that overlap with the park area, biosphere reserve, Natura 2000 and the socioeconomic influence area with a 100-meter buffer
National park limit
National_park_limit
.shp
Boundaries of each of the national parks studied
Natura 2000
RN2000
.shp
Layers of the Natura 2000 for each of the national parks studied
Socioeconomic influence area
AIS
.shp
Area of socioeconomic influence of each of the parks studied
Readme
.txt
File containing layer metadata, including download locations and descriptions of shape attributes.
by National Park
Accessibility
.tif
Accessibility variables that include routes, streets, parking, and train tracks
Climate
.tif
Chelsea-derived climate variable layers and solar radiation layers
Ecosystem functioning
.tif
Layers derived from remote sensing that are related with the functional attributes of ecosystems
Ecosystem structure
.tif
Landscape and spectral diversity metrics
Geodiversity
.tif
Topographic and derived variables
Land use Land cover
.tif
Layers related to land use and cover
Tourism and Culture
.tif
Layers related to infrastructure associated with tourism such as bars, restaurants, lodgings and places of cultural interest such as monuments
Scripts
Modeling to get output data
Biomod_modelling_by_park
.R
Script used for modeling CES using data from social media by fitting one ENM for each park and CES.
Biomod_modelling_all_parks
.R
Script used for modeling CES using data from social media by fitting one ENM for each CES.
Modeling to get output data
Downloading and processing variables
EFAS
EFAs code
.js
GEE scripts used to download the Ecosystem Functional Attributes (EFAs) (Paruelo et al.2001; Alcaraz-Segura et al. 2006) derived from Sentinel 2 dataset for each of the national parks studied
OSM
1) Download layers
.py
Python scripts used to download the OpenStreetMap layers of interest for each of the national parks studied.
2) Join layers
.py
Scripts used to merge OSM layers belonging to the same category. e.g., primary, secondary, and tertiary highways.
3) Count point
.py
Scripts used to count the number of points in each of the 100 grid cells for each park, used in case of point type data
4) Presence and absence
.py
Scripts used to assess presence in each of the cells of the 100-square grid for each park, used in the case of data types such as points, lines, and polygons.
Remote sensing
Canopy
.js
GEE scripts used to download the canopy (https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/canopy/) downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
ESPI
.js
GEE scripts used to download the ESPI index (Ecosystem Service Provision Index) downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
European disturbance map
.js
GEE scripts used to download European disturbance maps (//https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/biogeographical-regions-in-europe-2)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
LST
.js
GEE scripts used to download LST maps (from Landsat Collection)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
Night lights
.js
GEE scripts used to download nighttime light maps (https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/NOAA_VIIRS_DNB_ANNUAL_V22)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
Population density
.js
GEE scripts used to download population density maps (https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/CIESIN_GPWv411_GPW_Population_Density)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
Soil groups
.js
GEE scripts used to download Hydrologic Soil Group maps (https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/hihydro_soil/)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
Solar radiation
.js
GEE scripts used to download solar radiation maps (https://globalsolaratlas.info/support/faq)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
RGB diversity
Seasonal KMeans clustering
.js
GEE scripts were used to calculate seasonal clusters using Sentinel 2 RGB bands with GEE's .wekaKMeans algorithm. These layers were downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied.
Colour diversity analysis
.R
R script used to calculate spectral diversity (Shannon, Simpson and inverse Simpson) using the cluster layers and RGB bands derived from Sentinel 2.
Post processing
Align_and_Clip_rasters
.py
Python scripts used to align and clip the downloaded layers to a 100-meter grid reference layer for each of the national parks studied.
Outputs
CES projections
proj_Aiguestortes_Sports_ensemble
.tif
Spatial projections for the best models obtained for each CES and park
References:
Alcaraz-Segura, D., Paruelo, J., and Cabello, J. 2006: Identification of current ecosystem functional types in the Iberian Peninsula, Global Ecol. Biogeogr., 15, 200–212, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00215.x
Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, H.P., Kessler, M., 2017. Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas. Sci Data 4, 170122. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122
Lobo, J.M., Jiménez-Valverde, A., Hortal, J., 2010. The uncertain nature of absences and their importance in species distribution modelling. Ecography 33, 103–114. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.06039.x
Paruelo, J. M., Jobbágy, E. G., and Sala, O. E. 2001: Current Distribution of Ecosystem Functional Types in Temperate South America, Ecosystems, 4, 683–698, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-001-0037-9
Phillips, S.J., Anderson, R.P., Schapire, R.E., 2006. Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions. Ecological Modelling 190, 231–259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.03.026
Phillips, S.J., Dudík, M., Elith, J., Graham, C.H., Lehmann, A., Leathwick, J., Ferrier, S., 2009. Sample selection bias and presence-only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo-absence data. Ecological Applications 19, 181–197. https://doi.org/10.1890/07-2153.1
Thuiller, W., Georges, D., Gueguen, M., Engler, R., Breiner, F., Lafourcade, B., Patin, R., 2023. biomod2: Ensemble Platform for Species Distribution Modeling.
Sillero, N., Arenas-Castro, S., Enriquez‐Urzelai, U., Vale, C.G., Sousa-Guedes, D., Martínez-Freiría, F., Real,
Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License information was derived automatically
Global Urban Heat Island Intensity DatasetA novel dynamic equal-area (DEA) method was proposed for UHII estimations. This method can minimize the influence of various confounding factors through a dynamic cyclic process and finally obtain the background reference area (BRA) with its size equal to the central urban area. Utilizing the DEA method and leveraging eight different temperature data, we developed a global-scale (>10,000 cities), long-term (over 20 years by month), and multi-faceted (clear-sky surface, all-sky surface, and canopy) UHII dataset. Please refer to "Readme" for details.We also produced gridded UHII data with a spatial resolution of 1km. The data can be downloaded from Baidu Cloud Drive. Link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1XcYsRKFuVINCrvCG3nj3Ng Code: 1234This gridded UHII data is now on the Earth Engine data catalog: https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/uhii/In addition, all datasets have been uploaded to the Google Drive and can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dKwW2ceg457iM2UHLJWmMcNhkx5OfBY9?usp=drive_link. More information about downloading and using the datasets can be found at https://github.com/samapriya/awesome-gee-community-datasets/issues/276.Citation: Qiquan Yang.Global Urban Heat Island Intensity Dataset. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24821538, 2024.Reference: Qiquan Yang, Yi Xu, TC Chakraborty, et al. A global urban Heat Island intensity dataset: Generation, comparison, and analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024, 312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114343.
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Description
This dataset includes the inputs and outputs generated in the spatial modeling of CES using social media data for eight mountain parks in Spain and Portugal (Aigüestortes, Sierra de Guadarrama, Ordesa, Peneda-Gerês, Picos de Europa, Sierra de las Nieves, Sierra Nevada and Teide). This spatial modeling is addressed in the article in preparation entitled: "What drives cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas? An AI-assisted answer using social media."
The variables used as inputs to generate the models come from different sources:
-CES presence points come from social media photos (Flickr and Twitter) labeled using AI models and validated by experts. The models used for automatic labeling were Dino v2 and OPENAI's GPT 4.1 model. Consensus was sought on the labels from these two label sources, which showed F1 values above 0.75, and these labels were used as presence data.
The environmental variables used are mainly derived from:
OpenStreetMap (OSM) https://www.openstreetmap.org/
Variables derived from remote sensing
Topographic variables
Current and future climate variables derived from CHELSA (https://chelsa-climate.org/)
Landscape metrics (calculated with Fragstats software https://www.fragstats.org/)
Viewshed
Land use and land cover maps (https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/corine-land-cover)
The models were generated with the maximum entropy (MaxEnt) algorithm using the biomod2 R package, leveraging its suitability for presence-only data, low sample sizes, and mixed predictor types. To address sampling bias, we generated 10 pseudo-absence replicates based on the “target-group background” method. Models were evaluated using AUC-ROC and True Skill Statistic (TSS), with performance validation via 10-fold cross-validation, resulting in 100 runs per model. Ensemble models were created from runs with AUC-ROC > 0.6, using the median for spatial projections of CES and the coefficient of variation to estimate uncertainty. We implemented two modelling approaches: one assuming consistent CES preferences across parks, and another assuming park-specific preferences shaped by local environmental contexts.
Table 1. Categories used in social media photo tagging: Stoten, based on the scientific framework proposed by Moreno-Llorca et al. (2020) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140067).
Stoten
Cultural
Fauna/Flora
Gastronomy
Nature & Landscape
Not relevant
Recreational
Religious
Rural tourism
Sports
Sun and beach
Urban
Table 2. Table of contents of the dataset
Folder
format
Description
Inputs
Base layers
by National Park
100-meter grid
grid_wgs84_atrib
.shp
100 x 100 meter grid for each of the studied national parks that cover the study area
Biosphere Reserve
MAB_wgs84
.shp
Biosphere reserve layers present in each of the national parks studied
Municipality
Municipality
.shp
Layers of municipalities that overlap with the park area, biosphere reserve, Natura 2000 and the socioeconomic influence area with a 100-meter buffer
National park limit
National_park_limit
.shp
Boundaries of each of the national parks studied
Natura 2000
RN2000
.shp
Layers of the Natura 2000 for each of the national parks studied
Socioeconomic influence area
AIS
.shp
Area of socioeconomic influence of each of the parks studied
Readme
.txt
File containing layer metadata, including download locations and descriptions of shape attributes.
by National Park
Accessibility
.tif
Accessibility variables that include routes, streets, parking, and train tracks
Climate
.tif
Chelsea-derived climate variable layers and solar radiation layers
Ecosystem functioning
.tif
Layers derived from remote sensing that are related with the functional attributes of ecosystems
Ecosystem structure
.tif
Landscape and spectral diversity metrics
Geodiversity
.tif
Topographic and derived variables
Land use Land cover
.tif
Layers related to land use and cover
Tourism and Culture
.tif
Layers related to infrastructure associated with tourism such as bars, restaurants, lodgings and places of cultural interest such as monuments
Scripts
Modeling to get output data
Biomod_modelling_by_park
.R
Script used for modeling CES using data from social media by fitting one ENM for each park and CES.
Biomod_modelling_all_parks
.R
Script used for modeling CES using data from social media by fitting one ENM for each CES.
Modeling to get output data
Downloading and processing variables
EFAS
EFAs code
.js
GEE scripts used to download the Ecosystem Functional Attributes (EFAs) (Paruelo et al.2001; Alcaraz-Segura et al. 2006) derived from Sentinel 2 dataset for each of the national parks studied
OSM
1) Download layers
.py
Python scripts used to download the OpenStreetMap layers of interest for each of the national parks studied.
2) Join layers
.py
Scripts used to merge OSM layers belonging to the same category. e.g., primary, secondary, and tertiary highways.
3) Count point
.py
Scripts used to count the number of points in each of the 100 grid cells for each park, used in case of point type data
4) Presence and absence
.py
Scripts used to assess presence in each of the cells of the 100-square grid for each park, used in the case of data types such as points, lines, and polygons.
Remote sensing
Canopy
.js
GEE scripts used to download the canopy (https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/canopy/) downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
ESPI
.js
GEE scripts used to download the ESPI index (Ecosystem Service Provision Index) downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
European disturbance map
.js
GEE scripts used to download European disturbance maps (//https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/biogeographical-regions-in-europe-2)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
LST
.js
GEE scripts used to download LST maps (from Landsat Collection)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
Night lights
.js
GEE scripts used to download nighttime light maps (https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/NOAA_VIIRS_DNB_ANNUAL_V22)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
Population density
.js
GEE scripts used to download population density maps (https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/CIESIN_GPWv411_GPW_Population_Density)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
Soil groups
.js
GEE scripts used to download Hydrologic Soil Group maps (https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/hihydro_soil/)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
Solar radiation
.js
GEE scripts used to download solar radiation maps (https://globalsolaratlas.info/support/faq)
downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied
RGB diversity
Seasonal KMeans clustering
.js
GEE scripts were used to calculate seasonal clusters using Sentinel 2 RGB bands with GEE's .wekaKMeans algorithm. These layers were downloaded and cropped for each of the national parks studied.
Colour diversity analysis
.R
R script used to calculate spectral diversity (Shannon, Simpson and inverse Simpson) using the cluster layers and RGB bands derived from Sentinel 2.
Post processing
Align_and_Clip_rasters
.py
Python scripts used to align and clip the downloaded layers to a 100-meter grid reference layer for each of the national parks studied.
Outputs
CES projections
proj_Aiguestortes_Sports_ensemble
.tif
Spatial projections for the best models obtained for each CES and park
References:
Alcaraz-Segura, D., Paruelo, J., and Cabello, J. 2006: Identification of current ecosystem functional types in the Iberian Peninsula, Global Ecol. Biogeogr., 15, 200–212, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00215.x
Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, H.P., Kessler, M., 2017. Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas. Sci Data 4, 170122. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122
Lobo, J.M., Jiménez-Valverde, A., Hortal, J., 2010. The uncertain nature of absences and their importance in species distribution modelling. Ecography 33, 103–114. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.06039.x
Paruelo, J. M., Jobbágy, E. G., and Sala, O. E. 2001: Current Distribution of Ecosystem Functional Types in Temperate South America, Ecosystems, 4, 683–698, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-001-0037-9
Phillips, S.J., Anderson, R.P., Schapire, R.E., 2006. Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions. Ecological Modelling 190, 231–259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.03.026
Phillips, S.J., Dudík, M., Elith, J., Graham, C.H., Lehmann, A., Leathwick, J., Ferrier, S., 2009. Sample selection bias and presence-only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo-absence data. Ecological Applications 19, 181–197. https://doi.org/10.1890/07-2153.1
Thuiller, W., Georges, D., Gueguen, M., Engler, R., Breiner, F., Lafourcade, B., Patin, R., 2023. biomod2: Ensemble Platform for Species Distribution Modeling.
Sillero, N., Arenas-Castro, S., Enriquez‐Urzelai, U., Vale, C.G., Sousa-Guedes, D., Martínez-Freiría, F., Real,