New Plugin - FAO Downloader 2.1
FAO Downloader 2.1 is now live on the Plugin Repository. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization publishes an enormous catalogue of open, satellite-derived environmental raster data covering water productivity, rainfall, crop and land-cover maps, drought indices, soils, livestock, and much more. It's a very valuable resource, but browsing and downloading large volumes of raster data through FAO's web portals can be cumbersome.
FAO Downloader aims to streamline that access:
• Browse and download 2,000+ raster datasets across 90+ FAO workspaces with one tool (WaPOR, CHIRPS, GAEZ and more)
• Global coverage, with especially high-resolution WaPOR data over Africa and the Near East
• Clip every raster to your study area before download, so you only pull the data you actually need
• Auto-apply the correct scale and unit factors, style layers in the official FAO colours, stack time series, and compute area statistics along the way
• Filter before you download: set a date range, pick exactly the datasets you want, and apply value or percentile thresholds to focus download on the pixels that matter
You can view the git page here https://github.com/bvissers/FAO-Downloader
This will hopefully be a valuable resource for researchers, consultants, water and agriculture agencies, and students. Any feedback, ideas, and bug reports are all welcome, but this is a side project of mine so updates may be slow.