Data

Spatial Subdivisions:
Administrative boundaries & tiles

ECOWAS zone derived from GAUL 500m 2015 dataset
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ECOWAS administrative boundaries level 0 from GAUL 500m 2015 dataset
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ECOWAS administrative boundaries level 1 from GAUL 500m 2015 dataset
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ECOWAS administrative boundaries level 2 from GAUL 500m 2015 dataset
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Tiles 1000km 
(to facilitate data processing)
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Tiles 100km 
(to facilitate data processing)
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Sentinel 2 Tiles
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Samples used for the DDD ECOWAS Assessment

DDD ECOWAS Original Systematic Samples (n = 204K)
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DDD ECOWAS Revised Systematic Samples  (n = 396K)
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DDD ECOWAS Potential Forest Samples
(n = 64K)
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DDD ECOWAS Preliminary Assessment Samples (n = 1K)
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DDD ECOWAS Full Assessment Samples
(n = 10)
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Land use and land cover data

ECOWAS point-based land use land cover samples from the 2018 LOUD exercise
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Global Human Settlement Layer
(1975-2015) from JRC
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Global Surface Water
(1984-2021) from JRC
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Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers Collect 3, 2019, 100m
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ESA WorldCover
2020, 10m
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Dynamic World from National Geographic, WRI & Google
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Topographic data

Elevation from USGS Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (30m)
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Slope from USGS Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (30m)
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Aspect from USGS Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (30m)
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Biophysical data

Ecoregions from RESOLVE & Dinerstein et al. 2017
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Average (5-year) annual rainfall from CHIRPS, (5.5km)
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Accessibility data

Accessibility to cities in travel time from Weiss et al. 2018 (1km)
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Roads from GRIP4 Global Roads Database, Meijer et al. 2018
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Roads from CEISEN Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS) 2010
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Demographic data

Population density 2010, 2015 & 2020 CEISEN (1km)
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Perturbations

Incidents of conflict 2010-2020
from ACLED
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Total burn incidents 2010-2020
from MODIS (500m)
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Other vector data

Protected areas (all types) from  UNEP-WCMC
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Questions?

contact adia.bey@fao.org