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AidData is a research lab at William & Mary's Global Research Institute. It provides a wide range of sectoral and spatial data on bilateral and multilateral foreign assistance projects, including a special China section.

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Provides datasets to download and APIs from multiple public sectors, including education, medical services, tourism, real estate and more.

Provides information for understanding the complex interactions between human activities and global change.

Provides domestic astronomical data sets and solar data sets.

The platform provides global satellite cataloging, selected satellite remote sensing data and a collection of other scientific data sets. It also offers scientific datasets for sharing.

The platform is also linked to the Global Ecosystems and Environment Observation Analysis Research Corporation (GEOARC), the Cooperation on the Analysis of carbon SAtellites data (CASA), the National Spatial Data Acquisition and Application Emergency Collaboration System and Data Sharing Service Platform, and the GEOSS Portal.

• The Global Ecosystems and Environment Observation Analysis Research Corporation (GEOARC) is a framework for monitoring and analysis of ecosystem and environment information. It provides a series of datasets and reports that support public decision making.
• The Cooperation on the Analysis of carbon SAtellites data (CASA) was launched by the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in 2019. It cooperated with international societies (GEO/ICSU/UNEP) to co-fund carbon-oriented scientific research, the International Reanalysis Cooperation on Carbon Satellites Data (IRCSD). It provides data on a map from TanSat, a Chinese Earth Observation project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program) of China. It was successfully launched via a Long March-2D rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert at 3:22 am on Dec 22, 2016.
• The "National Spatial Data Acquisition and Application Emergency Collaboration System and Data Sharing Service Platform" provides spatial data information support for national emergency relief decisions in the event of major natural disasters or public emergencies by integrating various aerospace emergency observation resources in China. 
• The GEOSS Portal is an online map-based user interface which allows users to discover and access Earth observation data and resources from different providers from all over the world.

The platform provides five major categories of data.

1. Observational data. This includes: seismic, geomagnetic, gravity, topographic variation, geoelectric, subsurface fluid, strong shaking, present-day crustal motion, and other observational data. This is the largest category of seismic science data in terms of quantity.
2. Detection data. This includes: artificial seismic, geomagnetic, and seismic mobile array data.
3. Survey data. This includes: earthquake geology, earthquake hazards, earthquake field research, engineering earthquake damage, earthquake damage prediction, earthquake remote sensing, and other data.
4. Experimental data. This includes: tectonophysical experiments, neotectonic age tests, building structure seismic experiments, geotechnical earthquake engineering experiments, etc.
5. Thematic data. This kind of data is comprehensive data, mainly serving the objectives of an important research topic, a major engineering project, and a specific regional comprehensive research. For example, data on geological large section detection study, volcano monitoring study, reservoir seismic monitoring study, mine seismic monitoring study, typical large earthquake damage, crustal stress environment data in mainland China, Three Gorges Project, Qinghai-Tibet Railway, building seismic safety evaluation, etc.

Macro and micro data on resources and environment, including long-term observation data in the field, lab experiment data, social and economic empirical data, and remote sensing data, etc.

Provides free data on polar oceanography, polar solar-terrestrial physics, polar glaciology, polar resources and environmental science, polar biology and ecology, polar geography and geodesy, polar geology and geophysics, and polar atmospheric sciences.

Provides data on Chinese and typical regional earth surface process and man-earth relationship, global change and regional responsive comprehensive integrated data product, solar-terrestrial system and space environment.

Provides a unique data collection that has been designed to facilitate a wide range of natural science and socioeconomic research and educational activities.