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    • Historical Urban Population: 3700 BC - AD 2000

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    The Historical Urban Population, 3700 BC - AD 2000, originally developed by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, is the first spatially explicit global data set containing location and size of urban populations over the last 6,000 years. The data set was created by digitizing, transcribing, and geocoding historical, archaeological, and census-based urban population data. Each data point consists of a city name, latitude, longitude, year, population, and a reliability ranking to assess the geographic uncertainty of each data point. Despite spatial and temporal gaps, no other geocoded data set at this resolution exists. It can therefore be used to investigate long-term historical urbanization trends and patterns, evaluate the current era of urbanization, and build a richer record of urban population through history.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.34

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher SEDAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1527281913-SEDAC
    Data First Published 2018-05-04
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2018-05-04
    Category USPAT, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Reba, M. L., F. Reitsma, and K. C. Seto. 2018-05-04. Historical Urban Population: 3700 BC - AD 2000. Version 1.00. Palisades, NY. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4ZG6QBX. https://doi.org/10.7927/H4ZG6QBX.
    Creator Reba, M. L., F. Reitsma, and K. C. Seto
    Graphic Preview Description Maps Download Page
    Graphic Preview File https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc-ad2000/maps
    Harvest Object Id 6f3f0840-27c7-4a11-abd1-39ebdf2e9daf
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.7927/H4ZG6QBX
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -60.0 180.0 85.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.34
    Release Place Palisades, NY
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 539888fdecfeeb43acfc539d08581c5fc47fa018a012f00afb9cdc361fe0fc08
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z/2000-12-31T00:00:00Z

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