dagudelo30/nbs-ruralscan-data

NbS RuralScan Data

Raw geospatial input layers (climate, aridity, soil and road network) for the NbS RuralScan project. Study area: Haiti.

All files are third-party data, stored exactly as downloaded from the original providers, with no processing or transformation.

Repository structure

nbs-ruralscan-data/
└── raw/
    ├── global_aridity_index_v3/      (405 MB)
    │   └── ai_v31_yr.tif
    ├── hwsd_v2/                      (1.93 GB)
    │   ├── HWSD2.bil
    │   ├── HWSD2.hdr
    │   ├── HWSD2.prj
    │   ├── HWSD2.stx
    │   └── HWSD2.sqlite
    ├── osm_road_network/             (144 MB)
    │   └── gis_osm_roads_free_1.{shp,shx,dbf,prj,cpg}
    ├── worldclim_v2_bioclim_precip/  (487 MB)
    │   └── wc2.1_30s_bio_12.tif
    └── worldclim_v2_bioclim_temp/    (754 MB)
        └── wc2.1_30s_bio_1.tif

Total size: about 3.7 GB.

Datasets included

Folder	Variable	Source	Format	Coverage
global_aridity_index_v3	Annual Aridity Index (precipitation / reference evapotranspiration)	Global Aridity Index and PET Database v3	GeoTIFF, 30 arc-seconds (~1 km)	Global
hwsd_v2	Soil mapping units and soil attributes	Harmonized World Soil Database v2.0 (FAO / IIASA)	ESRI BIL raster + SQLite database	Global
osm_road_network	Road network	OpenStreetMap, Geofabrik extract "Haiti and Dominican Republic"	ESRI Shapefile (lines)	Haiti and Dominican Republic (not clipped)
worldclim_v2_bioclim_precip	BIO12, annual precipitation (mm)	WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000)	GeoTIFF, 30 arc-seconds (~1 km)	Global
worldclim_v2_bioclim_temp	BIO1, annual mean temperature (°C)	WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000)	GeoTIFF, 30 arc-seconds (~1 km)	Global

Notes

• Aridity Index. Index values increase for more humid conditions and decrease for more arid ones. Values are stored as integers multiplied by 10,000; divide by 10,000 to obtain the index.
• HWSD v2. Keep HWSD2.bil, .hdr, .prj and .stx together in the same folder. HWSD2.sqlite holds the soil attribute data linked to the raster's soil mapping units.
• OSM roads. Geofabrik publishes Haiti and the Dominican Republic as a single extract, so this file includes roads in both countries. Keep the .shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj and .cpg files together.
• WorldClim. Only BIO1 and BIO12 are included, not the other 17 bioclimatic variables.

How to use

from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

# Download everything (~3.7 GB)
snapshot_download(
    repo_id="dagudelo30/nbs-ruralscan-data",
    repo_type="dataset",
    local_dir="data",
)

# Or only one layer
snapshot_download(
    repo_id="dagudelo30/nbs-ruralscan-data",
    repo_type="dataset",
    local_dir="data",
    allow_patterns="raw/worldclim_v2_bioclim_temp/*",
)

Rasters can be opened with rasterio and the road network with geopandas.

Provenance

All files were downloaded on 2026-10-28.

Layer	Original source	Version	Download page
Aridity Index	Zomer & Trabucco (CGIAR-CSI), Figshare	Global-AI_PET v3	https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7504448.v6
HWSD	FAO / IIASA	2.0	https://gaez.fao.org/pages/hwsd
OSM roads	OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik	Latest extract at download date	https://download.geofabrik.de/central-america/haiti-and-domrep.html
WorldClim BIO1 and BIO12	WorldClim	2.1	https://www.worldclim.org/data/worldclim21.html

WorldClim files come from the 30-arc-second bioclimatic archive: https://geodata.ucdavis.edu/climate/worldclim/2_1/base/wc2.1_30s_bio.zip

Licenses and terms of use

This repository redistributes third-party data. Each layer keeps the license and terms of its original provider. Verify the current terms at each source before reuse.

Layer	License / terms
Global Aridity Index v3	Provided by the authors for non-commercial use. CC BY 4.0 attribution applies according to the Google Earth Engine community catalog; the Figshare description only states non-commercial use.
HWSD v2	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). Commercial use requests go through FAO. The FAO logo may not be used.
OSM roads	Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Attribution required: "© OpenStreetMap contributors". Derived databases may carry share-alike obligations.
WorldClim 2.1	Free for academic and non-commercial use with citation. Redistribution or commercial use requires permission from the WorldClim team (info@worldclim.org).

Because the aridity, HWSD and WorldClim layers are non-commercial, treat this repository as for non-commercial use with attribution.

Citation

Please cite the original sources:

• Aridity Index: Zomer, R.J., Xu, J. & Trabucco, A. (2022). Version 3 of the Global Aridity Index and Potential Evapotranspiration Database. Scientific Data, 9, 409. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7504448.v6
• HWSD v2: FAO & IIASA (2023). Harmonized World Soil Database version 2.0. Rome and Laxenburg. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc3823en
• WorldClim 2.1: Fick, S.E. & Hijmans, R.J. (2017). WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology, 37(12), 4302–4315.
• OpenStreetMap: © OpenStreetMap contributors. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

To cite this compilation:

@misc{agudelo_nbs_ruralscan_data,
  author       = {Agudelo, Diego},
  title        = {NbS RuralScan Data},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/dagudelo30/nbs-ruralscan-data}}
}

Contact

Diego Agudelo — d.agudelo@cgiar.org