Week 5: Regridding and Land Use Datasets

This week we’ll finish up with our discussion of regridding of two-dimensional datasets, and then move on to our first “deep dive” into environmental data with sources of land cover data!

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Topics We Will Cover:

• Data regridding/two-dimensional interpolation
• Land use/land cover datasets

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Lecture Slides (10/25)

Lecture Slides (10/27)

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Suggested Readings

• Esmaili chapter 8, “Gridding Operations”
• Wickham et al. 2014

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More Details on Land Cover Calculations

• Wickham et al. (2021): thematic accuracy of NLCD data
• Xian et al. (2012): calculation of impervious cover change, 2001-2006
• Yang et al. (2003): impervious area calculation method

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Other Useful Resources

• Mapbiomas Brasil
• National Land Cover Database
• Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium
• Worldpop
• Land Use: Our World in Data