NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) – Hosted by CIESIN at Columbia University
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Croplands, v1 (2000)

Global Agricultural Lands

To provide data on the extent of croplands for research on human-environment interactions.

Pastures, v1 (2000)

Global Agricultural Lands

To provide data on the extent of pasturelands for research on human-environment interactions.

Change in Chlorophyll-a Concentration, v1 (1998 – 2007)

Indicators of Coastal Water Quality

To provide tabular data on the trends of chlorophyll-a concentration on a pixel by pixel basis for identifying areas with improving, declining, and stable coastal water quality that can provide guidance for decision making in the context of coastal management.

Ancillary Data, v1 (1998 – 2007)

Indicators of Coastal Water Quality

To provide data that can assist in the extraction and analysis of chlorophyll-a concentration and trends from global grids.

Annual Chlorophyll-a Concentration, v1 (1998 – 2007)

Indicators of Coastal Water Quality

To provide a gridded version of existing SeaWiFS data in GIS-compatible formats in order to determine concentrations of chlorophyll-a in the coastal water column and to facilitate the integration with other data.

CODATA Catalog of Roads, v1 (1976 – 2008)

Global Roads (gROADS)

To provide documentation on roads data sets that are potential candidates for inclusion in the Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS), and which may be useful to others searching for data on road infrastructure.

Effects of Climate Change on Global Food Production from SRES Emissions and Socioeconomic Scenarios, v1 (1970 – 2080)

Climate Effects on Food Supply

To provide an assessment of potential climate change impacts on world crop production.

U.S. EPA National Priorities List Sites with CIESIN Modifications, v1 (2008)

Superfund Population and Locations

To provide an easily accessible, corrected EPA data set of the geo-referenced locations for all the National Priorities List sites in the United States and Puerto Rico.

Global Amphibian Presence Grids, v1 (2005 – 2007)

Gridded Species Distribution, v1

To provide a gridded version of existing vector maps of amphibian species distribution in which each grid cell is recoded to 1 (for present) or 0 (for not present) for use in modeling efforts.

Mammals of the Americas Original Grids, v1 (2005 – 2007)

Gridded Species Distribution, v1

To provide a gridded version of existing vector maps of mammal species distribution at 1- kilometer that preserves the original coding (1=Extant, 2= Possibly present, 3=Probably extinct, 4=Extinct, 5=Extirpated purposely, 6=Occurs on indicated island chain, and 7=Subfossil/fossil).

Birds of the Americas Original Grids, v1 (2005 – 2007)

Gridded Species Distribution, v1

To provide a gridded version of existing vector maps of bird species distribution at 1- kilometer that preserves the original coding (1=Extant, 2= Possibly present, 3=Probably extinct, 4=Extinct, 5=Extirpated purposely, 6=Occurs on indicated island chain, and 7=Subfossil/fossil).

Global Amphibians Original Grids, v1 (2005 – 2007)

Gridded Species Distribution, v1

To provide a gridded version of existing vector maps of amphibian species distribution at 1- kilometer that preserves the original coding (1=Extant, 2= Possibly present, 3=Probably extinct, 4=Extinct, 5=Extirpated purposely, 6=Occurs on indicated island chain, and 7=Subfossil/fossil).

Birds of the Americas Presence Grids, v1 (2005 – 2007)

Gridded Species Distribution, v1

To provide a gridded version of existing vector maps of bird species presence at 1- kilometer spatial resolution, which in turn can be used in modeling efforts, wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, policy-making, biodiversity studies and human-environment interactions.

Birds of the Americas Family Richness Grids, v1 (2005 – 2007)

Gridded Species Distribution, v1

To provide provide information on the number of bird species present at a 1 kilometer spatial resolution which can be used in modeling efforts, wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, policy-making, biodiversity studies and human-environment interactions.

Mammals of the Americas Presence Grids, v1 (2005 – 2007)

Gridded Species Distribution, v1

To provide a gridded version of existing vector maps of mammal species distribution in which each grid cell is recoded to 1 (for present) or 0 (for not present) for use in modeling efforts.

Mammals of the Americas Family Richness Grids, v1 (2005 – 2007)

Gridded Species Distribution, v1

To provide provide information on the number of mammal species present at a 1 kilometer spatial resolution which can be used in modeling efforts, wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, policy-making, biodiversity studies and human-environment interactions.

Global Amphibians Family Richness Grids, v1 (2005 – 2007)

Gridded Species Distribution, v1

To provide information on the number of amphibian species present at a 1 kilometer spatial resolution which can be used in modeling efforts, wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, policy-making, biodiversity studies and human-environment interactions.

Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) Observed Climate Change Impacts, v1 (1970 – 2004)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

To provide a database with observed responses to climate change for multidisciplinary studies.

Environmental Performance Index, 2008 Release (1994 – 2007)

Environmental Performance Index (EPI)

To provide quantitative metrics for evaluating a country's environmental performance in different policy categories relative to clearly defined targets.

Anthropogenic Biomes of the World, v1 (2001 – 2006)

Anthropogenic Biomes

To provide information on global land use for research on human-environment interactions.

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