CIESIN is pleased to announce the release of two new data sets through its NASA-funded Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), the Global Urban Polygons and Points Dataset (GUPPD), v1 and Delta Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, v1.
The Global Urban Polygons and Points Dataset (GUPPD), Version 1 is a global data set of 123,034 urban settlements with place names and population for the years 1975-2030 in five-year increments. The data set builds on and expands the European Commission, Joint Research Centre's (JRC) 2015 Global Human Settlement (GHS) Urban Centre Database (UCDB). For more information and to access the data see: https://doi.org/10.7927/brq1-xc29
The Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Global Delta Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, Version 1 data set provides country-level estimates of urban, quasi-urban, rural, and total population (count), land area (square kilometers), and built-up areas in river delta- and non-delta areas for 246 statistical areas (countries and other UN-recognized territories) for the years 1990, 2000, 2014 and 2015. For more information and to access the data see: https://doi.org/10.7927/4hgr-db70
