OHI Science | Citation policy
Global assessments require synthesizing highly heterogeneous information that is freely available from nearly one hundred sources. Data from each source are prepared and modeled using freely available coding and version control software. You may freely download and use any data, code, or instructional guides, but please see our Citation policy.
With each annual global assessment we have incrementally improved data processing and modeling methods based on new information, knowledge, and feedback. Thus, for annual scores to be comparable with previous years, we recalculate previous assessments with the most recent methods for each past assessment year. All code and most data are available online on GitHub.
Global assessment scores
Quick access to .csv files of calculated global scores.
Select a year and right-click to Save As. View the metadata for these files.
Full methods and data
Final scores and methods are released annually each fall. Ongoing work is available in our OHI-Science GitHub repositories. A description of file organization is available.
ohiprep repository):ohi-global repository)R package to calculate scores (ohicore repository)Documentation and Instruction
• 2016 Global OHI Scores Report • Peer-reviewed publications • Assessment manual (how to useohicore) •
We thank all the groups that collect and share data openly; please see the global layers page for a full list. We also thank developers that make and teach free software tools, in particular R, RStudio, git, and GitHub.