EFG T7.4 Urban and industrial – previous maps

T7. Intensive land-use biome

Version history

This page provides information about older or alternative versions of indicative distribution map for this ecosystem functional group T7.4 Urban and industrial. Check the current maps here.

• Indicative Map (code: T7.4.IM.orig, version v1.0) requires review
• Web navigation (code: T7.4.web.orig, version v1.0) discarded

Datasets

Datasets considered for previous versions of the indicative map

• VIIRS-Night-Lights (Cinzano et al. 2019).
• VIIRS-Night-Lights (NOAA NCEI).

dataset	url
VIIRS-Night-Lights	https://eogdata.mines.edu/products/vnl/

Available files

You can download geospatial data for older versions of these maps from the following sources:

T7.4.IM.orig (v1.0): Google Cloud bucket :: Zenodo repository (bundle of maps)

T7.4.web.orig (v1.0): Google Cloud bucket :: Zenodo repository (bundle of maps) :: Zenodo repository (EFG map) :: Mapbox tileset :: Earth Engine assets

Note that you need to login to some services like mapbox or earthengine, and in some cases you also need to request access to the files.

License information

Indicative maps have been released with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

But see details of dataset licenses below:

dataset	license_info
VIIRS-Night-Lights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

References

References used in these versions of the maps.

• VIIRS Day/Night Band Nighttime Lights, Version 1; Earth Observation Group, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Data-set
• Cinzano P, Falchi F, C. D. Elvidge CD (2019) The world atlas of the artificial night sky brightness Copyright Royal Astronomical Society. Reproduced from the Monthly Notices of the RAS by permission of Blackwell Science. University of Padova & NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder. Webpage