GeoNadir FAIR Data

Description

GeoNadir FAIR Data is an open collection of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) mapping datasets contributed through the GeoNadir platform and published as cloud-native geospatial files on Amazon S3.

Each dataset represents one drone survey. Every dataset provides a normalized metadata file and a ZIP package of the original raw images. Where available, a dataset may also include an RGB orthomosaic, a multispectral orthomosaic, a Digital Surface Model (DSM), and a Digital Terrain Model (DTM), each stored as a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) that can be read directly by GDAL, Rasterio, QGIS, and other cloud-native geospatial tools without downloading the full file.

The files are addressable directly on Amazon S3 by a stable key convention, so the collection is fully usable today with standard tools such as boto3, Rasterio, GDAL, and QGIS: list the datasets prefix, read each survey's metadata file, and open its COGs by their known keys.

A static STAC 1.1 catalog describes every dataset as a STAC Item and can be browsed with STAC Browser or read with pystac and other STAC clients. A STAC API for server-side search (by capture date, area of interest, and metadata fields such as IUCN habitat classification) is planned.

The collection includes only datasets that GeoNadir is able to publish publicly under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0) license. Private workspace data and unpublished datasets are out of scope for this collection.

Update Frequency

New drone mapping datasets are added as they are contributed and cleared for open publication.

License

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0). You are free to share and adapt the material for any purpose, provided you give appropriate credit to GeoNadir and the contributing data provider. Full license text is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Documentation

https://github.com/Geonadir/open-data-examples/blob/main/OPEN_DATA_STRUCTURE.md

Managed By

GeoNadir

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Contact

opendata@geonadir.com

How to Cite

GeoNadir FAIR Data was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/geonadir-fair-data. GeoNadir FAIR Data was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/geonadir-fair-data. GeoNadir. 2026. GeoNadir FAIR Data: open drone mapping datasets.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• Get To Know A Dataset: GeoNadir FAIR Data by GeoNadir
  
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