Data

Spatial Subdivisions:
Administrative boundaries & tiles

ECOWAS zone derived from GAUL 500m 2015 dataset
link, source

ECOWAS administrative boundaries level 0 from GAUL 500m 2015 dataset
link, source

ECOWAS administrative boundaries level 1 from GAUL 500m 2015 dataset
link, source

ECOWAS administrative boundaries level 2 from GAUL 500m 2015 dataset
link, source

Tiles 1000km
(to facilitate data processing)
link

Tiles 100km
(to facilitate data processing)
link

Sentinel 2 Tiles
link, source







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
link, source

Global Surface Water
(1984-2021) from JRC
link, source

Copernicus Global Land Cover Layers Collect 3, 2019, 100m
source

ESA WorldCover
2020, 10m
source

Dynamic World from National Geographic, WRI & Google
source

Topographic data

Elevation from USGS Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (30m)
link, source


Slope from USGS Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (30m)
link, source


Aspect from USGS Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (30m)
link, source


Biophysical data

Ecoregions from RESOLVE & Dinerstein et al. 2017
link, source


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)
source


Roads from GRIP4 Global Roads Database, Meijer et al. 2018
link, source


Roads from CEISEN Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS) 2010
link, source


Demographic data

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

Incidents of conflict 2010-2020
from ACLED
link, source

Total burn incidents 2010-2020
from MODIS (500m)
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Other vector data

Protected areas (all types) from UNEP-WCMC
link, source






Questions?

contact adia.bey@fao.org