[ESIP-all] New from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center

[Elisabeth Sydor]

New from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC 
<http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/>) managed by CIESIN 
<http://ciesin.columbia.edu/>:

· A new data set, The 2015 Urban Extents from VIIRS and MODIS for the 
Continental U.S. Using Machine Learning Methods, 
<https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/urbanspatial-urban-extents-viirs-modis-us-2015> 
is a highly accurate urban settlement layer at a resolution of 500 m, 
using 2015 satellite data and machine learning methods. The new data set 
and project work is discussed in a recent article 
<https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/10/01/nighttime-lights-intern-remote-sensing/>.

·Another /article 
<https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/10/25/rising-seas-low-lying-coastal-cities/> 
highlights t/he third iteration of SEDAC’s Low Elevation Coastal Zones 
(LECZ) data set and its contribution to a new report 
<https://urbantransitions.global/urban-opportunity/> by /Coalition for 
Urban Transitions (CUT <https://urbantransitions.global/>), //which 
examines the increased threat to urban coastal areas from sea level 
rise. Currently under development, LECZv3 /builds on the first global 
estimates of impacts to urban populations from sea level rise, presented 
in a 2007 paper 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956247807076960> by a 
team from CIESIN and the International Institute for Environment and 
Development.


·SEDAC deputy manager Alex de Sherbinin is a contributing author to 
Chapter Two 
<https://report.ipcc.ch/srocc/pdf/SROCC_FinalDraft_Chapter2.pdf>, “High 
Mountain Areas,” in the new///IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and 
Cryosphere/ <https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/home/>/./

-- 
Elisabeth Sydor
Communications Coordinator
CIESIN-A Center of the Earth Institute/Columbia University
845-365-8937
cel: 845-598-8053
www.ciesin.columbia.edu

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