This dataset describes the world’s religious makeup in 2020 and 2010. We focus on seven categories: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, people who belong to other religions, and those who are religiously unaffiliated. This analysis is based on more than 2,700 sources of data, including national censuses, large-scale demographic surveys, general population surveys and population registers. For more information about this data, see the associated Pew Research Center report "How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020."

This study, designed and carried out by the "http://www.asarb.org/" Target="_blank">Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB), compiled data on 372 religious bodies by county in the United States. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 religious bodies and on congregations only for 155. Participating bodies included 354 Christian denominations, associations, or communions (including Latter-day Saints, Messianic Jews, and Unitarian/Universalist groups); counts of Jain, Shinto, Sikh, Tao, Zoroastrian, American Ethical Union, and National Spiritualist Association congregations, and counts of congregations and adherents from Baha'i, three Buddhist groupings, two Hindu groupings, four Jewish groupings, and Muslims. The 372 groups reported a total of 356,642 congregations with 161,224,088 adherents, comprising 48.6 percent of the total U.S. population of 331,449,281. Membership totals were estimated for some religious groups.

In January 2024, the ARDA added 21 religious tradition (RELTRAD) variables to this dataset. These variables start at variable #12 (TOTCNG_2020). Categories were assigned based on pages 88-94 in the original "https://www.usreligioncensus.org/index.php/node/1638" Target="_blank">2020 U.S. Religion Census Report.

Visit the "https://www.thearda.com/us-religion/sources-for-religious-congregations-membership-data" Target="_blank">frequently asked questions page for more information about the ARDA's religious congregation and membership data sources.

The World Religion Project (WRP) aims to provide detailed information about religious adherence worldwide since 1945. It contains data about the number of adherents by religion in each of the states in the international system. These numbers are given for every half-decade period (1945, 1950, etc., through 2010). Percentages of the states' populations that practice a given religion are also provided. (Note: These percentages are expressed as decimals, ranging from 0 to 1, where 0 indicates that 0 percent of the population practices a given religion and 1 indicates that 100 percent of the population practices that religion.) Some of the religions (as detailed below) are divided into religious families. To the extent data are available, the breakdown of adherents within a given religion into religious families is also provided.

The project was developed in three stages. The first stage consisted of the formation of a religion tree. A religion tree is a systematic classification of major religions and of religious families within those major religions. To develop the religion tree we prepared a comprehensive literature review, the aim of which was (i) to define a religion, (ii) to find tangible indicators of a given religion of religious families within a major religion, and (iii) to identify existing efforts at classifying world religions. (Please see the original survey instrument to view the structure of the religion tree.) The second stage consisted of the identification of major data sources of religious adherence and the collection of data from these sources according to the religion tree classification. This created a dataset that included multiple records for some states for a given point in time. It also contained multiple missing data for specific states, specific time periods and specific religions. The third stage consisted of cleaning the data, reconciling discrepancies of information from different sources and imputing data for the missing cases.

The Global Religion Dataset: This dataset uses a religion-by-five-year unit. It aggregates the number of adherents of a given religion and religious group globally by five-year periods.

The RCS-Dem dataset reports estimates of religious demographics, both country by country and region by region. RCS was created to fulfill the unmet need for a dataset on the religious dimensions of countries of the world, with the state-year as the unit of observation. It covers 220 independent states, 26 selected substate entities, and 41 geographically separated dependencies, for every year from 2015 back to 1900 and often 1800 (more than 42,000 state-years). It estimates populations and percentages of adherents of 100 religious denominations including second level subdivisions within Christianity and Islam, along with several complex categories such as "Western Christianity." RCS is designed for easy merger with datasets of the Correlates of War and Polity projects, datasets by the United Nations, the Religion And State datasets by Jonathan Fox, and the ARDA national profiles.

The PV-Live dataset comprises data from a network of 40 solar irradiance measurement stations across the German state of Baden-Württemberg. All stations measure global horizontal irradiance and temperature with a pyranometer, and global tilted irradiance in east, south, and west direction with tilt angles of 25° with three photovoltaic reference cells in minute resolution. A quality control scheme has been developed specifically for this dataset and is applied to the measurements before publication. The minute resolution irradiance and temperature measurements are published with the derived quality flags. A description of the dataset and the quality control scheme is given in Lorenz et al. (2022) and Lorenz et al. (2020).

The dataset contains data from September 2020 onwards. It will be continuously extended by adding data of the previous month on a monthly basis.

QUALITY FLAGS

Two types of flags are provided with the data. Each sensor is assigned a general quality flag, which is based on a combination of different tests. In addition, a shading flag is given, which is not sensor specific, i.e. it applies to all irradiance sensors simultaneously. The flags can have the levels 'passed, all tests complete', 'passed, not all tests complete', 'failed tests, likely erroneous' or 'failed tests, most likely erroneous'. If the flag level of the general quality flags is 'failed tests, most likely erroneous' the corresponding measurement value is set to NaN.

DATA FORMAT

The data is published as monthly .zip archives. Each archive contains the following files:

1. Tab separated data files (tng000XX_YYYY-MM.tsv) for each station, containing measurements and quality flags of one month

2. Tab separated station location metadata (metadata_stations_YYYY-MM.tsv)

3. Metadata of the dataset describing variable names and quality flag levels (metadata_measurements.json)

4. General comments on data availability and quality for the month (comments_quality_control_YYYY-MM.txt)

5. Log file of changes (change_log_YYYY-MM.txt)

Station location metadata is given on a monthly basis because stations can be relocated. Therefore, we recommend to use the metadata valid for its corresponding month.

VERSION UPDATES

The data for each month is published in a new version of the dataset. Link which resolves to the newest version: https://zenodo.org/record/4036728

Additional changes in versions:

- Version 7:

- Recalculation of height information for all stations

- One station has been moved to a new, nearby location on 16th September 2021

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The data have been collected and processed by Fraunhofer ISE in the framework of PV-Live, a project in cooperation with TransnetBW.

We thank our station partners for cooperation in installing and maintaining our measurement stations: EnBW Solar, Badenova, Pohlen Solar, Oekogeno Solar7, Ecovision, Hochschule Ulm, Hofgemeinschaft Heggelbach, Soltechnics-solution and the Stadtwerke Karlsruhe, Grünstadt, Buchen, Crailsheim, Schwäbisch Hall, Pforzheim, Konstanz, Waldshut-Tiengen, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Ravensburg, Eberbach, Baden-Baden.

This dataset includes corrections for GRACE, removing the leakage effect from 283 of the major global lakes and reservoirs (removal approach) for 2003 - 2016 and optionally relocating the leaked mass to its origin within the outline of the lakes/reservoirs. The correction is computed from forward-modelling surface water volume estimates derived from satellite altimetry (DAHITI, Schwatke et al., 2015) and remote sensing (Global WaterPack, Klein et al., 2017). A DDK3-filter (Kusche, 2007) has been applied.

Satellite tracking data of fin whales from Svalbard

Quality

Argos location data

The dataset is downloaded from the "Compustat Global - Annual Fundamentals" database. The dataset contains all Dutch listed firms in the period 1998-2020. The variables are mainly financial statement line items related to firm fundamentals and financial reporting / audit quality.

The upload contains a long-term data set of 1°x 1° monthly mean total column water vapour (TCWV) retrieved in the visible "blue" spectral range from global measurements of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). The TCWV data set covers the time range from January 2005 to December 2020.

This file includes the data from Mostefaoui et al. (ESSD, under submission), for 54 countries African countries

The data includes:

(1) CO2 fluxes from global models - satellite inversions and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVM) -, and from a collection of national inventories for LULUCF, GFEDv4 and FAO data.

DGVM values are the median of 14 models, consistent with the Global Carbon Budget 2020 (https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/3269/2020/) LULUCF UNFCCC corrected values are from Grassi https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2022-104/

(2) CH4 fluxes from global models consistent with the Global Methane Budget 2020 (https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/1561/2020/)

(3 N2O fluxes from global models (three inversions)

For further methodological details, see Mostefaoui et al. (ESSD, under submission):

Mounia Mostefaoui, Philippe Ciais, Matthew J. McGrath, Philippe Peylin, Prabir Patra. Greenhouse gasses emissions and their trends over the last three decades across Africa, ESSD (under submission)

India Census: Population: by Religion: Muslim: Urban data was reported at 68,740,419.000 Person in 2011. This records an increase from the previous number of 49,393,496.000 Person for 2001. India Census: Population: by Religion: Muslim: Urban data is updated yearly, averaging 59,066,957.500 Person from Mar 2001 (Median) to 2011, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 68,740,419.000 Person in 2011 and a record low of 49,393,496.000 Person in 2001. India Census: Population: by Religion: Muslim: Urban data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Census of India. The data is categorized under India Premium Database’s Demographic – Table IN.GAE001: Census: Population: by Religion.

Context and Aim

Deep learning in Earth Observation requires large image archives with highly reliable labels for model training and testing. However, a preferable quality standard for forest applications in Europe has not yet been determined. The TreeSatAI consortium investigated numerous sources for annotated datasets as an alternative to manually labeled training datasets.

We found the federal forest inventory of Lower Saxony, Germany represents an unseen treasure of annotated samples for training data generation. The respective 20-cm Color-infrared (CIR) imagery, which is used for forestry management through visual interpretation, constitutes an excellent baseline for deep learning tasks such as image segmentation and classification.

Description

The data archive is highly suitable for benchmarking as it represents the real-world data situation of many German forest management services. One the one hand, it has a high number of samples which are supported by the high-resolution aerial imagery. On the other hand, this data archive presents challenges, including class label imbalances between the different forest stand types.

The TreeSatAI Benchmark Archive contains:

• 50,381 image triplets (aerial, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2)

• synchronized time steps and locations

• all original spectral bands/polarizations from the sensors

• 20 species classes (single labels)

• 12 age classes (single labels)

• 15 genus classes (multi labels)

• 60 m and 200 m patches

• fixed split for train (90%) and test (10%) data

• additional single labels such as English species name, genus, forest stand type, foliage type, land cover

The geoTIFF and GeoJSON files are readable in any GIS software, such as QGIS. For further information, we refer to the PDF document in the archive and publications in the reference section.

Version history

v1.0.0 - First release

Citation

Ahlswede et al. (in prep.)

GitHub

Full code examples and pre-trained models from the dataset article (Ahlswede et al. 2022) using the TreeSatAI Benchmark Archive are published on the GitHub repositories of the Remote Sensing Image Analysis (RSiM) Group (https://git.tu-berlin.de/rsim/treesat_benchmark). Code examples for the sampling strategy can be made available by Christian Schulz via email request.

Folder structure

We refer to the proposed folder structure in the PDF file.

• Folder “aerial” contains the aerial imagery patches derived from summertime orthophotos of the years 2011 to 2020. Patches are available in 60 x 60 m (304 x 304 pixels). Band order is near-infrared, red, green, and blue. Spatial resolution is 20 cm.

• Folder “s1” contains the Sentinel-1 imagery patches derived from summertime mosaics of the years 2015 to 2020. Patches are available in 60 x 60 m (6 x 6 pixels) and 200 x 200 m (20 x 20 pixels). Band order is VV, VH, and VV/VH ratio. Spatial resolution is 10 m.

• Folder “s2” contains the Sentinel-2 imagery patches derived from summertime mosaics of the years 2015 to 2020. Patches are available in 60 x 60 m (6 x 6 pixels) and 200 x 200 m (20 x 20 pixels). Band order is B02, B03, B04, B08, B05, B06, B07, B8A, B11, B12, B01, and B09. Spatial resolution is 10 m.

• The folder “labels” contains a JSON string which was used for multi-labeling of the training patches. Code example of an image sample with respective proportions of 94% for Abies and 6% for Larix is: "Abies_alba_3_834_WEFL_NLF.tif": [["Abies", 0.93771], ["Larix", 0.06229]]

• The two files “test_filesnames.lst” and “train_filenames.lst” define the filenames used for train (90%) and test (10%) split. We refer to this fixed split for better reproducibility and comparability.

• The folder “geojson” contains geoJSON files with all the samples chosen for the derivation of training patch generation (point, 60 m bounding box, 200 m bounding box).

CAUTION: As we could not upload the aerial patches as a single zip file on Zenodo, you need to download the 20 single species files (aerial_60m_…zip) separately. Then, unzip them into a folder named “aerial” with a subfolder named “60m”. This structure is recommended for better reproducibility and comparability to the experimental results of Ahlswede et al. (2022),

Join the archive

Model training, benchmarking, algorithm development… many applications are possible! Feel free to add samples from other regions in Europe or even worldwide. Additional remote sensing data from Lidar, UAVs or aerial imagery from different time steps are very welcome. This helps the research community in development of better deep learning and machine learning models for forest applications. You might have questions or want to share code/results/publications using that archive? Feel free to contact the authors.

Project description

This work was part of the project TreeSatAI (Artificial Intelligence with Satellite data and Multi-Source Geodata for Monitoring of Trees at Infrastructures, Nature Conservation Sites and Forests). Its overall aim is the development of AI methods for the monitoring of forests and woody features on a local, regional and global scale. Based on freely available geodata from different sources (e.g., remote sensing, administration maps, and social media), prototypes will be developed for the deep learning-based extraction and classification of tree- and tree stand features. These prototypes deal with real cases from the monitoring of managed forests, nature conservation and infrastructures. The development of the resulting services by three enterprises (liveEO, Vision Impulse and LUP Potsdam) will be supported by three research institutes (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, TU Remote Sensing Image Analysis Group, TUB Geoinformation in Environmental Planning Lab).

Publications

Ahlswede et al. (2022, in prep.): TreeSatAI Dataset Publication

Ahlswede S., Nimisha, T.M., and Demir, B. (2022, in revision): Embedded Self-Enhancement Maps for Weakly Supervised Tree Species Mapping in Remote Sensing Images. IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens

Schulz et al. (2022, in prep.): Phenoprofiling

Conference contributions

S. Ahlswede, N. T. Madam, C. Schulz, B. Kleinschmit and B. Demіr, "Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images for Tree Species Classification Based on Explanation Methods", IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022.

C. Schulz, M. Förster, S. Vulova, T. Gränzig and B. Kleinschmit, “Exploring the temporal fingerprints of mid-European forest types from Sentinel-1 RVI and Sentinel-2 NDVI time series”, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022.

C. Schulz, M. Förster, S. Vulova and B. Kleinschmit, “The temporal fingerprints of common European forest types from SAR and optical remote sensing data”, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA, 2021.

B. Kleinschmit, M. Förster, C. Schulz, F. Arias, B. Demir, S. Ahlswede, A. K. Aksoy, T. Ha Minh, J. Hees, C. Gava, P. Helber, B. Bischke, P. Habelitz, A. Frick, R. Klinke, S. Gey, D. Seidel, S. Przywarra, R. Zondag and B. Odermatt, “Artificial Intelligence with Satellite data and Multi-Source Geodata for Monitoring of Trees and Forests”, Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, Germany, 2022.

C. Schulz, M. Förster, S. Vulova, T. Gränzig and B. Kleinschmit, (2022, submitted): “Exploring the temporal fingerprints of sixteen mid-European forest types from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series”, ForestSAT, Berlin, Germany, 2022.