Population and Infrastructure on Our Human Planet: Supporting Sustainable Development through Improved Spatial Data and Models for Human Settlements, Infrastructure, and Population Distribution Based on Earth Observations

Lead PI: Robert Chen , Dr. Alexander de Sherbinin , Greg Yetman

Unit Affiliation: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

January 2018 - June 2022
Inactive
Global
Project Type: Research

DESCRIPTION: This is a 3-year grant to support the Human Planet Initiative of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and advance the use of population and settlement data in computing selected Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators.

SPONSOR:

National Aeronautics & Space Administration-NASA

RESEARCH TEAM:

Susana Adamo, Marc Levy

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS:

University of Louisville, ImageCat, Inc.

KEYWORDS

sustainable development goals population data infrastructure sustainable development

THEMES

Stewardship of the planet