Human Dimensions Information
Images below are the images from the poster from left to right; top to bottom
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The Environmental Performance Index ranks how well countries perform on high-priority environmental issues in two broad policy areas: protection of human health from environmental harm and protection of ecosystems. The 2014 Environmental Performance Index is now available. (Top Row: Left) |
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Global Anthropogenic Biomes, also known as "anthromes" or "human biomes", describe the terrestrial biosphere in its contemporary, human-altered form using global ecosystem units defined by patterns of sustained direct human interaction. (Top Row: Right) |
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Gridded Population of the World depicts the distribution of human population across the globe. A newly updated Version 4 for the GPW data product will be available in the next few months. (2nd Row: Left) |
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Spatial distribution of net primary productivity (NPP) NPP is how much carbon dioxide (CO2) vegetation takes in during photosynthesis minus how much CO2 the plants release during respiration. (2nd Row: Right) |
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Gridded Population of the World Great Lakes area shows population density around lakes. The two darkest areas are Chicago and Detroit. A newly updated Version 4 for the GPW data product will be available in the next few months. (3rd Row: Right) |
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These 2 images compare the Northeast Corridor of the US, (left) population density from NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Application Center's (SEDAC’s) 2010 GPW dataset with (right) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) 2012 data, ngdc.noaa.gov/eog. (Bottom Row) |
All images on this poster and page are from SEDAC unless otherwise noted.
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