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[dataset] MapSPAM Protect

This dataset is part of the MapSPAM series on spatial production. It is produced as interim result using WDPA v1.6 data about protected areas as input. The dataset is important to indicate all locations, where crop prdocution is least likely to take place, as crop production does not occur within protected areas such as national parks, wilderness areas or nature reserves. The rawdata is converted to a 5arcmin grid.

"We select the protected area (Protect) from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (Deguignet et al., 2014), as an allocation parameter to indicate the locations where crop production is least likely to take place. Notionally, crop production does not occur within protected areas (such as national parks, wilderness areas, and nature reserves), but in reality it does."
Yu, Qiangyi; You, Liangzhi; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; Ru, Yating; Joglekar, Alison K. B.; Fritz, Steffen et al. (2020): A cultivated planet in 2010 – Part 2: The global gridded agricultural-production maps. In: Earth Syst. Sci. Data 12 (4), S. 3545–3572. DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-3545-2020.

"Protected areas are designated by the World Database on Protected Areas 2003 from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and include both international and national definitions: (a) international designation of protected areas are areas designated or proposed through international or regional conventions, and (b) national designations are proposed at the national or sub-national level. The data, originally in a polygon format (Protectshape), was converted to 5 arc-minute grids (Protecti) using GIS software."
Yu, Qiangyi; You, Liangzhi; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; Ru, Yating; Joglekar, Alison K. B.; Fritz, Steffen et al. (2020): Supplement of "A cultivated planet in 2010 – Part 2: The global gridded agricultural-production maps". In: Supplement of Earth Syst. Sci. Data (Earth System Science Data) 12 (4). DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-3545-2020-supplement.

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Identifier mapspam-protect
Documentation https://wdpa.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/WDPA_Manual/English/WDPA_WDOECM_Manual_1_6.pdf
Contact Point protectedareas@unep-wcmc.org
Contact Point - ORCID iD or e-mail adress
Dataset DOI
Information Website https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/thematic-areas/wdpa?tab=WDPA
Theme / Vocabulary / Ontology https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/theme/ps
Coordinate Reference System
Spatial Resolution 0.08333
Spatial Resolution Measured As angular distance
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Last Updated October 15, 2021, 12:31 (UTC)
Created July 27, 2021, 14:28 (UTC)