The NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) operated by CIESIN is pleased to announce a number of recent releases and updates to its data resources and associated mapping tools:
- Natural Resource Protection and Child Health Indicators, 2016 Release
- Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1): Urban Extent Polygons, Revision 01
- Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1): Settlement Points, Revision 01
- Global 3-Year Running Mean Ground-Level NO2 Grids from GOME, SCIAMACHY and GOME-2, 1996-2012
- U.S. Census Grids (Summary File 1), 2010
- 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
- IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Observed Climate Change Impacts Database, Version 2.01
- HazPop 1.4 (iOS app updated to display volcano activity)
- SEDAC Hazards Mapper (updated with EONET hazards and population estimates for US flood warning areas)
- SEDAC Citations Database (more than 3,400 citations of SEDAC data)
- Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples, version 1.9 (AppEEARS) (tool from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP-DAAC) that now accesses SEDAC population data)
Forthcoming SEDAC releases include:
- Global Population Count and Density Grid Time Series Estimates, v1 (1970 – 2000)
- India Annual Winter Cropped Area, v1 (2001 – 2016)
- Gridded Population of the World, v4.10 (will include age and sex breakdowns for 2010 on a 30-arcsecond grid)
CIESIN has also collaborated with the Facebook Connectivity Lab to release the following data collection under an open access license: