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Turning Schools from Death Traps into Havens

Science Times section of The New York Times – May 27, 2008
Turning Schools from Death Traps into Havens

Map of school-age children in earthquake zones illustrates an accompanying article: following the recent earthquakes in China, experts assess school safety and the vulnerability of children to earthquakes.

Taliban Wages War on Police in Its New Front in Pakistan

The Wall Street Journal – May 28, 2008
Taliban Wages War on Police in Its New Front in Pakistan

Map of Pakistan illustrating areas of escalating violence in the Punjab, the country’s most populous province.

Populations in Proximity to Nuclear Power Plants

Nature News – April 21, 2011
Proximity to nuclear power plants, featured on Nature News web site

An embedded Google Earth client in an article in Nature News shows the population count living within 75 kilometers of each of the world′s nuclear power plants. Population increases with circle size and color, from green (< 0.5 million) to red (> 20 million). The data and analysis were developed by SEDAC.

Prosperity Shining

Sensing Our Planet – October 13, 2012
Night time Lights India

This article in the annual anthology, Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features 2012, describes how economists have used night-time lights satellite data together with SEDAC human settlements data as a measure of economic growth, complementing traditional economic data. The researchers combined a dataset produced by NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) with SEDAC’s Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project version 1 (GRUMPv1) Settlement Points to attribute economic activity to specific cities.  The researchers, including former SEDAC staff member Adam Storeygard, show that the night-time lights data enable cross-border and subnational assessments of economic activity.

NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations in Disaster Aftermath

Space & Earth science/Earth Sciences – June 13, 2008
NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations in Disaster Aftermath

A map of Burma, based on the SEDAC Gridded Population of the World (GPW) data product, reveals that coastal areas hit hardest by the cyclone in May 2008 were highly populated. (Areas in progressively darker shades of brown represent increased population.)

Earthquake Rocks China

WSJ Online – May 13, 2008
Earthquake Rocks China

Map of China illustrates an article comparing the location of the Sichuan province earthquakes with population centers in China.

Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones

The New York Times – February 24, 2010
Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones

Data and maps compiled by SEDAC and the Center for Hazards and Risk Research are featured in a front-page news article in the New York Times (print version February 25) assessing the vulnerability of buildings in earthquake zones. “Where Shoddy Construction Could Mean Death” shows a map (top) that depicts the predicted number of deaths in Instanbul from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake, depending on the type of construction of the building. The second map (bottom) ranks the vulnerability of other urban areas in earthquake zones with more than one million people.

Caught in the Danger Zone

The Wall Street Journal – January 13, 2010
CIESIN supplied population density data for a map of the Haiti earthquake.

SEDAC population density data was used in a map of the Haiti earthquake.

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