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Subset of DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights for Economic Activity, v1 (2010)

Readme for the West Africa Coastal Vulnerability Mapping: Subset of DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights for Economic Activity, v1 (2010) data set [72 KB PDF file]

For information about maps representing the climate exposure and vulnerability indices, visit the CIESIN Mapping the Exposure of Socioeconomic and Natural Systems of West Africa to Coastal Climate Stressors page, which includes a link to the full 2014 report.

For more information please see this open access peer-reviewed article:

de Sherbinin, A, T. Chai-Onn, M. Jaiteh, V. Mara, L. Pistolesi, E. Schnarr, and S. Trzaska. 2015. Data Integration for Climate Vulnerability Mapping in West Africa. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 4(4):2561-2582. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4042561.