# Malaria Atlas Project Data Explorer
*data products*

## Specifications
- **level**: L4
- **distributor**: malaria-atlas-project
- **access endpoint**: https://data.malariaatlas.org/
- **access model**: open
- **primary data portal url**: https://data.malariaatlas.org/
- **use cases**: ["Malaria incidence, prevalence, mortality, vector, and modelled raster data for spatial disease risk analysis"]
- **deployment context**: ground
- **entity type**: data_product
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-11
- **verified by**: operator
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **provider**: malaria-atlas-project
- **attributes**: {"level":"L4","distributor":"malaria-atlas-project","access_endpoint":"https://data.malariaatlas.org/","access_model":"open","primary_data_portal_url":"https://data.malariaatlas.org/","use_cases":"[\"Malaria incidence, prevalence, mortality, vector, and modelled raster data for spatial disease risk analysis\"]","deployment_context":"ground"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) Data Explorer is a web-based portal providing access to MAP-modelled disease-burden rasters covering malaria incidence, prevalence, and mortality, alongside vector distribution and related spatial datasets.[^map-data-portal] Data products span P. falciparum and P. vivax globally from 2000 onwards, with updated estimates published in conjunction with peer-reviewed outputs.[^map-lancet-2025][^map-lancet-2019] Spatial resolution varies across product families within the catalogue; resolution and licence conditions are documented per dataset on the portal. The malariaAtlas R package provides a programmatic interface to MAP data for spatial analysis workflows.[^malariaatlas-r-pkg] Access is open via the MAP data portal at data.malariaatlas.org.

## Compositional position
- Malaria Atlas Project Data Explorer --[related]--> malaria-atlas-project-eo-covariates (data_products)
- vector-borne-disease (topics) --[topic_capabilities]--> Malaria Atlas Project Data Explorer

## Sources
- [map-data-portal] | Malaria Atlas Project Data Explorer | https://data.malariaatlas.org/ | tier=operator-engineering | accessed=2026-06-11 | author=Malaria Atlas Project
- [map-lancet-2025] | Mapping global prevalence, incidence, and mortality of P. falciparum and P. vivax malaria, 2000-22 (Lancet 2025) | https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00038-8/fulltext | tier=peer-reviewed | accessed=2026-06-11 | author=Weiss et al.
- [map-lancet-2019] | Mapping global P. falciparum prevalence, incidence, and mortality 2000-17 (Lancet 2019) | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6675740/ | tier=peer-reviewed | accessed=2026-06-11 | author=Weiss et al.
- [malariaatlas-r-pkg] | malariaAtlas: an R interface to global malariometric data (Malaria Journal 2018) | https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-018-2500-5 | tier=peer-reviewed | accessed=2026-06-11 | author=Pfeffer et al.

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