I am trying to use MaxEnt for my thesis but for some reason I just can't find usable environmental data. The only data I have been able to use so far is bioclimatic data from Bioclim. I can't find anyone else asking this question. Many asks about converting the data or processing it but not obtaining it. To specify I'm searching for data of Europe regarding hydrology, vegetation cover and/or soil.
You can get data from various sources. For instance, you can convert the altitude from WorldClim to aspect and slope. But I recommend you subscribe to Ecocommons (http://www.ecocommons.org.au/) to get the necessary data including vegetation cover.
For soil and hydrological gridded data, you can check ISRIC Data Hub: https://data.isric.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home (and downloadable soil records: https://files.isric.org/soilgrids/latest/data_aggregated/)
The vegetation cover is quite an involved process - use the Google Earth Engine's (https://earthengine.google.com) code editor to extract the gridded NDVI data (e.g., from MOD13A1.061 Terra Vegetation Indices 16-Day Global 500m or even MOD13Q1). But you will need to develop some python code for this.
Dear Marieke,
soil (global): https://soilgrids.org/
hydrology (for European Union): https://www.mapsforeurope.org/datasets/euro-global-map
land cover (global): https://land.copernicus.eu/global/products/lc
HTH,
Ákos
Please visit to meteorological unit of your institute or university.
They will provide you.
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