British Indian Ocean Territory GIS data sources
- Region
- Seven seas (open ocean)
- ISO 3166
- IO · IOT
- Sources
- 3
- Themes
- 4
- Last verified
Where to download GIS data for British Indian Ocean Territory: 3 sources across 4 themes, led by BIOT Administration and WorldPop, University of Southampton. 1 offers vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON. 2 are under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.
Country atlases
National and OpenStreetMap sources for British Indian Ocean Territory
Buildings 1
Building footprint data for every country-
Buildings of British Indian Ocean Territory (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeHumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HDX)
OpenStreetMap building footprints exported by HOT and refreshed regularly.
- Buildings
Verified
Population 1
Gridded population data for every country-
WorldPop population data – British Indian Ocean Territory (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeWorldPop, University of Southampton
100 m and 1 km gridded population counts, age/sex structure and related layers.
- Population
Verified
Environment 1
Environmental and protected area data for every country-
British Indian Ocean Territory Administration (opens in a new tab)
Portal Cost: FreeBIOT Administration
Official territory website with information on the Marine Protected Area and environment.
- Environment
- Marine & coastal
Verified
Global datasets that cover British Indian Ocean Territory
Worldwide and continental layers that include British Indian Ocean Territory, useful where national data is missing, restricted or inconsistent across borders.
- Boundaries & admin
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- GADM (opens in a new tab) GADM project · Non-commercial only · Free · Verified
- geoBoundaries (opens in a new tab) William & Mary geoLab · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) Natural Earth · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Elevation / DEM
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- ALOS World 3D 30 m (AW3D30) (opens in a new tab) JAXA · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Copernicus DEM (GLO-30 / GLO-90) (opens in a new tab) ESA / Airbus (Copernicus) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- ETOPO 2022 Global Relief Model (opens in a new tab) NOAA NCEI · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Imagery
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- AlphaEarth Foundations Satellite Embeddings (annual, COG mirror) (opens in a new tab) Google and Google DeepMind (mirror by Taylor Geospatial on Source Cooperative) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- ASF Data Search (Vertex) (opens in a new tab) Alaska Satellite Facility · Provider terms / varies · Free with registration · Verified
- Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (opens in a new tab) European Space Agency / European Commission · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Land cover
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- Copernicus Global Dynamic Land Cover (CGLS-LC100) (opens in a new tab) Copernicus Land Monitoring Service · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Dynamic World (opens in a new tab) Google / World Resources Institute · Open licence · Free · Verified
- ESA CCI Land Cover (opens in a new tab) European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Buildings
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- Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints (opens in a new tab) Microsoft · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Population
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- Global Human Settlement Layer (opens in a new tab) European Commission JRC · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Gridded Population of the World (GPWv4) (opens in a new tab) CIESIN, Columbia University / NASA SEDAC · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Kontur Population (opens in a new tab) Kontur · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Marine & coastal
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- Allen Coral Atlas (opens in a new tab) Arizona State University · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Copernicus Marine Service (opens in a new tab) Mercator Ocean International (Copernicus) · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Global Fishing Watch datasets (opens in a new tab) Global Fishing Watch · Non-commercial only · Free with registration · Verified
- Environment
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- GBIF occurrence API (opens in a new tab) Global Biodiversity Information Facility · Provider terms / varies · Free with registration · Verified
- Key Biodiversity Areas (opens in a new tab) KBA Partnership / BirdLife International · Non-commercial only · Free with registration · Verified
- OpenAQ (opens in a new tab) OpenAQ · Provider terms / varies · Free with registration · Verified
Tutorials that use this kind of data
- Extract building footprints and heights from LiDAR in Python (USGS 3DEP, downtown Madison) Intermediate
- Getting started with GeoPandas: projections, spatial joins and choropleth maps Beginner
- Sentinel-1 ship detection in Python: a CA-CFAR detector off the Port of Rotterdam Intermediate
- Burn severity mapping with Sentinel-2 and dNBR in Python (Saddleworth Moor 2018) Intermediate
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