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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.

Urban-Rural Population Estimates, v1 (2000)

Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ)

To provide estimates of urban and rural populations and land areas in the low elevation coastal zone.

Population, Landscape, And Climate Estimates (PLACE), v2 (1990, 2000)

National Aggregates of Geospatial Data Collection (NAGDC)

To provide tabular data on environmental conditions (elevations, climate, coastal) in which people reside.

Synthetic Assessment of Global Distribution of Vulnerability to Climate Change, v1 (2005, 2050, 2100)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

To provide geographical portraits of vulnerability designed to incorporate both exposure to climate change and national capacities to adapt.

Urban Landsat: Cities from Space, v1 (1999 – 2003)

Urban Landsat

To serve a wide user community by providing composite Landsat images and raw data for urban areas that can be used in interdisciplinary studies of remote sensing and the environment.

Summary File 3: Metropolitan Statistical Areas, v1 (2000)

U.S. Census Grids

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of income, education, and housing, for metropolitan statistical areas at a finer resolution than is available in the 30 arc-second grids used for the United States as a whole.

Pilot Environmental Performance Index, 2006 Release (1994 – 2006)

Environmental Performance Index (EPI)

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

Summary File 1, v1 (2000)

U.S. Census Grids

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of age, race, ethnicity, and housing, for the United States and Puerto Rico for data integration.

Summary File 3, v1 (2000)

U.S. Census Grids

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of income, education, and housing, for the United States and Puerto Rico for data integration.

Summary File 1: Metropolitan Statistical Areas, v1 (2000)

U.S. Census Grids

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of age, race, ethnicity, and housing, for metropolitan statistical areas at a finer resolution than is available in the 30 arc-second grids used for the United States as a whole.

Last of the Wild (Geographic), v2 (1995 – 2004)

Last of the Wild, v2

To provide an updated map of wild areas in geographic projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

Global Human Influence Index (Geographic), v2 (1995 – 2004)

Last of the Wild, v2

To provide an updated map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in geographic projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

Global Human Footprint (Geographic), v2 (1995 – 2004)

Last of the Wild, v2

To provide an updated map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in geographic projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

Small Area Estimates of Poverty and Inequality, v1 (1991 – 2002)

Poverty Mapping, v1

To provide high spatial resolution subnational estimates of poverty and inequality for use by a wide user community for interdisciplinary studies of poverty, inequality and the environment.

Global Subnational Prevalence of Child Malnutrition, v1 (1990 – 2002)

Poverty Mapping, v1

To provide a global subnational map of the prevalence of underweight children that can be used by a wide user community in interdisciplinary studies of health, poverty and the environment.

Global Subnational Infant Mortality Rates, v1 (2000)

Poverty Mapping, v1

To provide a global subnational map of infant mortality rate estimates that can be used by a wide user community in interdisciplinary studies of health, poverty and the environment.

Subnational Administrative Boundaries, v3 (1990, 1995, 2000)

Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v3

To provide maps of the input administrative units used in GPWv3.

Population Density Grid, v3 (1990, 1995, 2000)

Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v3

To provide a time series of raster data on population density to facilitate data integration.

Population Density Grid Future Estimates, v3 (2005, 2010, 2015)

Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v3

To provide a time series of raster data on population projected to the year 2015 to facilitate data integration.

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