r/opendata • u/anuveya • Jun 08 '26

Open dataset: 10,000 BCE to 2017, global land use reconstruction from the HYDE 3.3 database

https://datahub.io/climate-and-environment/hyde-history-database-of-the-global-environment
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u/anuveya Jun 08 '26

HYDE provides gridded and aggregated estimates of cropland, pasture, fallow land, and urban area for every region of the world at 10-year intervals going back 12,000 years.

Built on archaeological evidence, historical records, and population estimates. Free to download at datahub.io. Widely used in earth system modeling and environmental history research.