Spatial data in Puhti

Spatial data in Puhti#

  • Large commonly used Finnish geospatial datasets with open licenses

  • Removes transfer bottleneck

  • Located in: /appl/data/geo/

  • All Puhti users have read access

  • ~13 TB of datasets available:

    • Paituli data, with virtual mosaics for raster data

    • Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE) open datasets: CORINE land use etc

    • Forest center: canopy height, forest mask, gridcells, forest resource plots

  • LUMI and Mahti do not have spatial data on local disk.

  • CSC Docs: Spatial data in CSC computing environment

Paituli#

  • Spatial data download service

  • ~300 Finnish datasets

  • All datasets open to everyone

  • Also historical versions of several datasets

  • Possibility to publish own datasets for universities and research institutes

  • Ministry of education and culture supports financially, CSC maintains

  • Paituli

"Paituli"

Paituli data access in Puhti:#

  • As files in /appl/data/geo/

  • Raster datasets via STAC

  • Rasters divided to mapsheets as virtual rasters

  • Majority via OGC APIs, both old and new standards