Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN)
CIESIN manages the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), which supports the development of a number of population, settlement, and infrastructure data products. SEDAC disseminates CIESIN and third-party generated data sets. CIESIN also collaborates with the European Commission's Joint Research Center, Facebook, the German Space Agency, and WorldPop on a number of population grid and settlement data products. Please review their respective pages.
Data Access
- The NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
Data Products
- Population Grids:
- Gridded Population of the World, version 4 (GPW v4) (this includes several different data sets, including population grids by age and sex)
- U.S. Census Grids (2010)
- Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, version 1 Population Density Grid (GRUMP v1) (2000, 2005, 2010)
- Global Population Count Grid Time Series Estimates, version 1 (1970 – 2000)
- Global One-Eighth Degree Population Projection Grids Based on SSPs, v1.01 (2000 – 2100)
- Global 1-km Downscaled Population Projection Grids Based on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, v1.01 (2000 – 2100)
- Spatial Data from the 2011 India Census, v1 (2011)
- Settlement Data:
- Global Human Built-up And Settlement Extent (HBASE) Dataset From Landsat, v1 (2010)
- Global Man-made Impervious Surface (GMIS) Dataset From Landsat, v1 (2010)
- Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP), version 1.01 Population Settlement Points (GRUMP v1) (2000)
- Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, version 1.01 Urban Extents (GRUMP v1) (2000)
- Urban Extents from VIIRS and MODIS for the Continental U.S. Using Machine Learning Methods, v1 (2015)
- Infrastructure Data:
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