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Kenya Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and their Status, 2003-04
This data was used in Map 5.3 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Please note that this data is frequently updated. Please refer to Birdlife International's website for most updated versions and downloads: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/index.html
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Uganda Rural Poverty Data 2005
The poverty indicators produced by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) are based on household consumption expenditures, including both food and a range of nonfood items such as education, transport, health, and rent. Households are defined as poor when their total expenditures fall below...
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Water supplies serving Mombasa, Kenya
Locations of dam were approximately located by WRI based on SoK 1971, and MoWD and JICA 1992a, 1992b, 1992c. This data was used in Map 3.10 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being.
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Locations of large hydropower dams in Kenya
Locations of hydropower sites were approximately located by WRI based on SoK 1971, KenGen 2006, and from MoWD and JICA 1992a, 1992b, 1992c. This data was used in Map 3.11 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being.
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Percent Treecover in Kenya
The Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) collection contains proportional estimates for vegetative cover types: woody vegetation, herbaceous vegetation, and bare ground. The product is derived from all seven bands of the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard NASA's...
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Kenya Shaded Relief Surface (90m resolution)
The cell values represent illumination value from 0 - 255. Shaded relief surfaces are mainly used as background in mapping and displaying data. [RETURN] This spatial data set is a derivative product of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission(SRTM) digital elevation model(DEM) data set. The SRTM DEM...
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Spatial distribution of wildebeest population in the Athi-Kapiti Plains, Kenya
This data was used in Map 5.15 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Note: A number of wildebeest nul should be interpreted as "No observation of wildebeest".
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Índice de Desigualdad Urbana (Index of Urban Inequality)
The main objective of the UII methodology is to estimate the level of accessibility/proximity to urban equipment for different socioeconomic strata in cities. This allows to compare and identify inequality in the territorial distribution of development opportunities such as formal employment,...
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Kenya Digital Elevation Model (90m resolution)
The objective of the SRTM mission is to obtain elevation radar data on a near-global scale and generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of the Earth. The information collected by SRTM will be used to provide a tool to enhance the activities of scientists, the...
