| Name: | LandScan Global Population Database 2008 |
| File Format: | Grid |
| Location on Campus AFS: | /afs/isis.unc.edu/data/gis/library/library5/landscan2008/ |
| Parent Data Layer Set Physical Location: |
Campus Network |
| Parent Data Layer Set Call Number: | N/A |
| Source: | N/A |
| Scale: | N/A |
| Spatial Resolution: | 30 arc second |
| Restrictions: | Licensed. UNC-CH students, faculty, and staff only. Not for redistribution. Copyright law applies to all uses of the data. Publication of images is restricted to static renditions (e.g. .gif, .jpeg, etc.) that are plotted, printed, or publicly displayed with proper metadata and source/copyright attribution to the respective data vendor(s). |
| Publication Year: | 2009 |
| Date of Content: | 2008 |
| Data Type: | Grid |
| Map Units: | Decimal Degrees |
| Datum: | D_WGS_1984 |
| Projection: | Geographic |
| Bounding Coordinates: | |
| Global Spatial Extent: | Y |
| Spatial Extent, Countries/Territories Include: | Global Extent |
| Spatial Extent, States Include: | |
| Spatial Extent, Counties Include: | |
| Thematic Category(ies): |
Boundaries, Society Additional data layers in these categories: Boundaries, Society |
| Keywords: | population |
| This layer is from the following Data Layer Set: | LandScan Global Population Database (see notes) |
| For Additional Information, see: | |
| Notes: | There is a layer file in the same location that can be used to display the data (lspop2008.lyr). There is also an area grid (AreaGrid) that can be used to determine population density. The field: [Area] contains the area of each grid cell in square km. Consult "IMPORTANT.doc" for parameter information. Products generated using this data must be accompanied by a credit notice as follows. If possible: "©2009 UT-Battelle, LLC Notice: This product was made utilizing the LandScan 2008TM High Resolution Global Population Data Set copyrighted by UT-Battelle, LLC, operator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the United States Department of Energy. The United States Government has certain rights in this Data Set. NEITHER UT-BATELLE, LLC NOR THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, NOR ANY OF THEIR EMPLOYEES, MAKES ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OR ASSUMES ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF THE DATASET." If space is limited, use the following credit line instead: "Source: ORNL LandScan 2008TM/UT-Battelle, LLC". This information is included in YOU_MUST_CITE_THIS_DATA_AS_FOLLOWS.doc |
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