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Mapping Population and Geographic Data

The New Security Beat – September 24, 2009
Mapping Population and Geographic Data - Marc Levy

In this blog for the Center Environmental and Security Program (ECSP), CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy talks with ECSP director Geoff Dabelko about using the Gridded Population of the World (GPW) data product to aid in combining population and geographic data.

Fire Activity and Net Primary Productivity

Global Ecology and Biogeography – August 29, 2013
Forest Fire

In moist regions around the globe, fire activity is believed to be driven by drought frequency, whereas in dry regions, fire is thought to be limited by the amount of fuel available.  Researchers recently tested these ideas by comparing global fire activity as detected by the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor with measures of vegetation such as net primary productivity from the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity (HANPP) data collection available from SEDAC and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from NOAA satellite data.  Although fire activity is indeed limited by droughts in moist areas and by fuel in dry regions, human activities—specifically tropical rain forest deforestation and fire suppression policies in the western U.S.—also strongly influence fire activity.

Another Way to Look at an Air Quality Problem

State of the Planet – March 7, 2012
Satellite image of a particularly valuable perspective on PM2

Satellite data offer a particularly valuable perspective on PM2—small particles deriving mostly from burning fossil fuels and biomass, which can harm human health—because ground instruments may be unavailable or offer limited information, as is the case in China. With that in mind, researchers at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and Batelle Memorial Institute have developed maps based on satellite data that depict annual PM2.5 exposure in all of China’s provinces.

A Catalog of Change

Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features 2009 – November 11, 2009
CIESIN’s role in making climate change data freely available to the public is noted in an article in this annual collection of articles about how scientists use Earth science data to learn about the planet.

SEDAC′s role in making climate change data freely available to the public is noted in a collection of articles on how scientists use Earth science data to learn about the planet.

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