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This map shows the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, as estimated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, coupled with SEDAC population density data for 2010.
This map shows the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, as estimated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, coupled with SEDAC population density data for 2010.

NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) is operated by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), a unit of the Earth Institute at Columbia University based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

SEDAC’s missions are to synthesize Earth science and socioeconomic data and information in ways useful to a wide range of decision makers and other applied users, and to provide an “Information Gateway” between the socioeconomic and Earth science data and information domains.

SEDAC datasets can be accessed via the dataset section of the SEDAC web site.

Contact Information

Dr. Robert Chen, CIESIN Director, DAAC Manager
Dr. Alex de Sherbinin, Deputy DAAC Manager
Dr. Susana Adamo, Lead Project Scientist
Sri Vinay, DAAC Systems Engineer
Joe Schumacher, User Services Manager

CIESIN, Columbia University
PO Box 1000
61 Route 9W
Palisades, NY 10964

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Visit the DAAC: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu

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Socioeconomic Data

SEDAC has extensive holdings related to population, sustainability, and geospatial data, and provides access to a large number of multilateral environmental agreements. SEDAC efforts include:

  • Human population distribution on a latitude-longitude grid (U.S. and global)
  • Human settlements and infrastructure, including roads, reservoirs, and dams
  • Ecosystem, agriculture, and wetlands data
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) socioeconomic scenarios
  • Environmental treaty status and texts
  • Environmental sustainability indicators
  • Global data on natural hazards, poverty, and air and water pollution
  • Map gallery and online mapping and query tools for key datasets

DAAC fact sheet:

SEDAC one pager

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    Webinar: Discover NASA's Gridded Population of the World

    The Gridded Population of the World (GPW) is a global, high-resolution population data collection. The webinar will cover the history for the product, but will focus primarily on newly developed data - GPW version 4 (GPWv4).

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    Webinar: Explore NASA Socioeconomic Data using Web Mapping Services

    This webinar will provide an overview of the geospatial data holdings and data access tools, and highlight ways this socioeconomic data can be integrated with remote sensing data to address problems such as: climate change and potential impacts on migration; health risks of air pollution; forecasting urban expansion and the impacts of that expansion on biodiversity and carbon pools.

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    Webinar: Rapid Assessment of Hazard Impacts - NASA SEDAC Hazard Mapper

    Learn about the new NASA SEDAC Hazard Mapper and how to make a rapid assessment of potential hazard impacts.

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    Webinar: Remote Sensing Derived Environmental Indicators for Decision Making

    During this webinar we discuss remotely sensed environmental indicator data sets that can enable environmental decision making. We focus on three major issue areas: ambient air pollution, coastal eutrophication and biomass burning.

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