Year
Various, 1970 to Present
Abstract
SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, is one of the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). SEDAC focuses on human interactions in the environment. Its mission is to develop and operate applications that support the integration of socioeconomic and Earth science data and to serve as an Information Gateway between the Earth and social sciences.
The SEDAC Data Resources webpage includes links to many socioeconomic and environmental related datasets, including:
- Anthropogenic Biomes
- Archive of American Census-Related Products
- Central American Vegetation/Land Cover Classification and Conservation Status
- China Dimensions Data Collection
- Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
- Environmental Sustainability
- Georeferenced Population Data Sets of Mexico
- Global Distribution of Poverty
- Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)
- Gridded Population of the World
- Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity (HANPP)
- Human Footprint
- Indicators of Coastal Water Quality
- IPCC Socioeconomic Data Distribution Centre
- Last of the Wild
- Low Elevation Coastal Zone Urban-Rural Estimates (LECZ)
- Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
- Population, Landscape, and Climate Estimates (PLACE)
- Species Distribution Grids
- U.S. Census Grids
- Urban Landsat: Cities From Space
- World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment (WDC)
URL
Available for download via the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
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