App Information
BeeSpatial is a portal to access geospatial data that are the basis for the Beescape app.
Using BeeSpatial you can get summaries of spatial data surrounding points or export raster data for states or counties in the continental United States.
Issues can be reported here.
BeeSpatial provides access to the following datasets:
The CDL is an annual 30-m resolution raster published by USDA NASS which gives crop-specific land cover categories as well as non-agricultural land cover classes from the USGS National Land Cover Database (NCDL). Data are available from 2008 onward and data for the year prior are generally published in February or March of the current year so that there will often be a one year lag in data availability.The accuracy of the CDL varies from state to state and from year to year. Information on accuracy across crop categories can be found here.
These data use the CDL in combination with data on pesticide use pattern and toxicity to indicate the potential exposure to insecticides at a focal pixel based on the land use at various distances around the pixel. If using these data, please cite: Douglas, M., Baisley, P., Soba, S., Kammerer, M., Lonsdorf, E. and Grozinger, C. 2022. Putting pesticides on the map for pollinator research and conservation. Scientific Data 9(571): doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01584-z.
These data represent a distance weighted value of the quality of pollinator nesting and forage resources developed by Lonsdorf et al. (2009). CDL land cover values were translated into into forage according to habitat quality scores developed by Koh et al. (2016) and shared by the original authors. Seasonal date ranges are as defined by Koh et al. (2016), and available for spring, summer, and fall.
Monthly average temperature and precipitation interpolation data fro the PRISM dataset available at 800m grid cell resolution derived from observed weather at over 10,000 stations across the continental US.