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Geospatial visualizations are an AI-enabled advanced weather and climate visualization service from Environmental Intelligence Suite. The visualizations are augmented by decision support service as part of the Environmental Intelligence Suite dashboards. The dashboards and geospatial visualizations are designed to support any business that is impacted by the disruptive nature of weather, but might lack the data science, tools, or meteorological expertise to mitigate the impacts to efficiency, safety, and profitability. From the dashboard, you can monitor the weather parameters that matter to you, and set alerts that notify you when critical thresholds have been or will be exceeded.

The geospatial and weather visualizations are powered by IBM’s industry-leading AI-modelling and geospatial capabilities and industry-leading forecast services from The Weather Company. These services are augmented with the largest network of private weather stations, over 250,000 worldwide, and are supported by an infrastructure that handles over 30 billion requests a day.

The geospatial visualizations and dashboards contain and display some data based on the following sources:
Table 1. Data sources for geospatial visualizations and dashboards in Environmental Intelligence Suite
Source Links and details
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Some of the data in this application is sourced from the Bureau of Meteorology. Click here for details:
Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) Alabama's COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard
Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Archived Alaska COVID-19 Information Hub
Arizona Department of Health Services Arizona Department of Health Services
Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) Arkansas Department of Health (ADH)
California Department of Public Health California Department of Public Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19
CHIRPS Precipitation
  • CHIRPS - Funk, Chris, Pete Peterson, Martin Landsfeld, Diego Pedreros, James Verdin, Shraddhanand Shukla, Gregory Husak, James Rowland, Laura Harrison, Andrew Hoell & Joel Michaelsen.
  • The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations — a new environmental record for monitoring extremes.
  • Scientific Data 2, 150066. doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.66 2015.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Connecticut Department of Public Health Connecticut Department of Public Health
CropScape USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Cropland Data Layer. 2017. Published crop-specific data layer. USDA-NASS, Washington, DC.
Delaware Division of Public Health Delaware Division of Public Health
El Instituto de Estadisticas de Puerto Rico El Instituto de Estadisticas de Puerto Rico
ERA Interim Reanalysis Data ECMWF ERA Interim Reanalysis Data available through Copernicus Climate Data Store
Florida Department of Health (FDOH) Florida COVID-19 response
Georgia Department of Public Health Georgia Department of Public Health
Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS)
  • GDAS Authors: DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC > Environmental Modeling Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
  • GDAS data comes from the NWS and is not subject to copyright protection.
Government of the District of Columbia Government of the District of Columbia COVID-19 Surveillance
Green Vegetation Fraction (GVF) Vargas, Marco, Jiang, Zhangyan, Ding, Hanjun, and NOAA JPSS Program Office (2015). NOAA JPSS Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Green Vegetation Fraction (GVF) from NDE. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. doi:10.7289/V5DN434X. NOAA material is not subject to copyright protection.
Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services
Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2
Hybrid - State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Miller, D.A. and R.A. White, 1998: A Conterminous United States Multi-Layer Soil Characteristics Data Set for Regional Climate and Hydrology Modeling. Earth Interactions, 2.
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH)
International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 20 category vegetation [NASA], [2001-2012], [International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 20 category vegetation]. [Version 051]. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Kansas Department of Health and Environment Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH)
Landsat 8
Land Information System (LIS)
  • Copyright ©2015 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All Rights Reserved.
  • LIS by NASA is subject to NASA Terms of Use
Land Surface Albedo (LSA) Land Surface Albedo (LSA data comes from the NWS and is not subject to copyright protection).
Maine Department of Health and Human Services Division of Disease Surveillance
Maryland Department of Health Maryland Department of Health COVID-19
Massachusetts Department of Public Health Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health COVID-19
Minnesota Department of Health Minnesota Department of Health
Mississippi State Department of Health Mississippi State Department of Health COVID-19
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Data Products
  • MODIS datasets are derived from USGS MODIS program datasets
  • Friedl, M.A., D. Sulla-Menashe, B. Tan, A. Schneider, N. Ramankutty, A. Sibley and X. Huang (2010), MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets, 2001-2012, Collection 5.1 IGBP Land Cover, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) - Leaf Area Index (LAI) Myneni, R., Knyazikhin, Y., Park, T. (2015). MOD15A2H MODIS/Terra Leaf Area Index/FPAR 8-Day L4 Global 500m SIN Grid V006. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi: 10.5067/MODIS/MOD15A2H.006
Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS)
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) New Jersey COVID-19 Dashboard
New Mexico Department of Health COVID-19 in New Mexico
New York State Department of Health New York State Department of Health
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services North Carolina Respiratory Virus Summary Dashboard
North Dakota Department of Health North Dakota Department of Health Coronavirus Cases
Ohio Department of Health Ohio Department of Health
Oklahoma Department of Health Oklahoma Department of Health COVID-19
Open Source attribution
Package name: Trove
Version 1.0.2
Copyright (c) 2001, Eric D. Friedman
Package name: XOM
Version 1.2.7
Copyright 2002-2005 Elliotte Rusty Harold
Package name: JBoss-serialization
Version 1.0.3.GA
Copyright 2009, Red Hat Middleware LLC, and individual contributors as indicated by the @author tags.
Package name: sge
Version 8.1.9
Secondary package listtree-Copyright (c) 1996 Robert W. McMullen
Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Oregon Health Authority (OHA) COVID-19 Updates
Pennsylvania Department of Health COVID-19 data for Pennsylvania
Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) Rhode Island COVID-19 Data Hub
Sentinel-2
  • European Space Agency – ESA
  • Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2018] for Sentinel data; and/or contains modified Copernicus Service information [2018] for Copernicus Service Information.
Sentinel Hub
  • European Space Agency – ESA
  • Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2018] for Sentinel data; and/or contains modified Copernicus Service information [2018] for Copernicus Service Information.
Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission - 90m Digital Elevation Database (SRTM) NASA, 2014, SRTM 90m Digital Elevation Database, Version 2.1. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov).
Soilgrids Soil Properties SoilGrids - Includes Soilgrids data and modified Soilgrids data sourced from ISRIC at https://www.isric.org/explore/soilgrids under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ license.
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
South Dakota Department of Health (SD-DOH) South Dakota Department of Health (SD-DOH)
Tennessee Department of Health Tennessee Department of Health Corona virus Deisease
Texas Department of State Health Services
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) / Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) EROS data provided by U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior (USGS)
USDA Quick Stats This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.
Utah Department of Health Utah Department of Health
Vermont Department of Health Services
Virginia Department of Health (VDH)
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) Coronavirus Disease 2019
Wyoming Department of Health