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Sneha Rao
Robert S. Chen
Sri Vinay
SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA AND APPLICATIONS CENTER (SEDAC),
http://SEDAC.CIESIN.COLUMBIA.EDU
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION NETWORK (CIESIN),
WWW.CIESIN.COLUMBIA.EDU
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About us:
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At CIESIN we provide access to and enhance the use of information worldwide to
advance:
 Understanding of human interactions in the environment
 Serve as an information gateway between the earth sciences and social sciences
 Provide decision-makers data and tools for improved assessment capabilities
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CIESIN’s major ongoing activities include:
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NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
Haiti Regeneration Initiative (HRI)
Africa Soil Information Services (AfSIS)
Millennium Village Project (MVP)
Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet)
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SEDAC: STRONG FOCUS ON GIS-BASED DATA
Agriculture
Climate
Governance
Hazards
Health
Land Use
Marine and Coastal
Population
Poverty
Remote Sensing
Sustainability
Urban
Water
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Common Data platform for Earth, Social and Natural sciences
• Multiple Data Types
– Gridded data
– Vector data
– Point data
– Features/Attributes
• Focus on Integrating Climate Data with
Socioeconomic and Earth Science/Remote
Sensing Data
• Complicated sets of:
– Databases, datasets, data collections
– Metadata, maps, glossaries, etc.
– Other documentation
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Common services platform for Earth, Social and Natural sciences
Full list of WMS services available at: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/maps/services/wms
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SEDAC Web Mapping Client
This client is based on an open source client using Open Layers and server using
Geoserver. These clients can be embedded directly in SEDAC web pages and provides
better performance for users compared with the previous client.
Web Map Client URL: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/maps/client
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SEDAC’s Population estimation service
Fig Estimate of population living in proximity of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants, Japan
The Population Estimation Service is a Web Processing service(WPS) for estimating
population totals and related statistics within a user-defined region. It enables
users to quickly obtain estimates of number of people residing in specific areas.
WPS URL: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/wps.jsp
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LANCE – Land Atmospheric Near real-time Capability EOS
“ESDIS provides access to near-real time products from
the MODIS, OMI, AIRS, and MLS instruments in less
than 2.5 hours from observation from the Land and
Atmosphere Near-real time Capability for EOS (LANCE).
The system supports application users who are
interested in monitoring and analyzing a wide variety of
natural and man-made phenomena. Data are freely
available after self-registration.”
LANCE WMS Floods URL: http://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/nrt-data
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LANCE Data Product Latency
LANCE WMS Floods URL: http://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/nrt-data/data-products
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LANCE Hazards
and Disaster
Applications
URL:
http://earthdata.nasa.gov/da
ta/nrt-data/hazards-anddisasters
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LANCE Flood WMS
LANCE WMS Floods URL: http://lance2.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/wms/floods.html
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EXECUTION
Disaster Use Case Scenario:
An analyst is interested in the impacts of coastal storms and sea-level rise in Central America
Data of Interest: Exposed Population, Vegetation Infrastructure, Protected and Marine Resources
Actions:
1. User uses the SEDAC/PYXIS* data and map interface to define the contiguous areas of
interest
2. User uses guide maps such as proximity of coast, elevation, forest cover, wetlands, urban
extents, road networks and protected area boundaries to define contiguous areas
3. User requests GIS-compatible data for each defined area
4. User uses these predefined areas or draws new areas to monitor potential/actual impacts in
affected areas E.g. request most recent LANCE* data for land/surface change in region before
and after storm
5. User can also draw comparisons in population densities and total populations in the AOI,
taking into account distance from coast, elevation above seal-level and forest cover and
calculate statistics and visualizations comparing AOI in terms of population growth rates over
time, level of poverty based on Infant mortality rate, infrastructure and livelihood statistics
*LANCE
– Land Atmospheric Near real time Capability for EOS
PYXIS WorldView* - Client integrates multiple sources of data on a hexagonal discrete global grid
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For further details contact us at Website
http://ciesin.columbia.edu
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu
CIESIN E-mail
ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu
Team contacts
Robert S. Chen
Sri Vinay
Sneha Rao
bchen@ciesin.columbia.edu
sri@ciesin.columbia.edu
srao@ciesin.columbia.edu
THANK YOU