← Search

Table · collection · 1994

Georeferenced Population Datasets of Mexico (GEO-MEX): Raster Based GIS Coverage of Mexican Population

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.7927/h41n7z2z

The Raster Based GIS Coverage of Mexican Population is a gridded coverage (1 x 1 km) of Mexican population.

Description

The data were converted from vector into raster. The population figures were derived based on available point data (the population of known localities - 30,000 in all).

Cell values were derived using a weighted moving average function (Burrough, 1986), and then calculated based on known population by state. The result from this conversion is a coverage whose population data is based on square grid cells rather than a series of vectors. This data set is produced by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia e Informatica (INEGI).

Links

Get the data

Catalogue records · 3

Topics

Inferred from text
Population geography 76%
Provenance · 2 source records, 23 field assertions
SourceKeyLast seenRaw
NASA Earthdata CMRC3540931378-ESDIS14 d agoJSON v1
NASA Data Portal3a18f062-ecb1-4883-8916-54edf69662fe11 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[field].anzsrc:field:440607enrichment · NASA CMRtaxonomy-embedding@1.0.0title+keywords+description (76%)
concepts[field].local:field:astronomymapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmentalmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:engineeringmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmosphericmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:physicsmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:social-sciencemapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:computersource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/human-dimensions/boundariessource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/human-dimensions/infrastructuresource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/human-dimensions/populationsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/human-dimensions/population/population-distributionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:modelssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
created_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
license_textsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
publication_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
updated_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0