G - I
type: Concept

GDP
type: Concept
in scheme: projects
definition: The Global Demography Project (GDP) is an effort to generate consistent, spatially referenced global population data sets for global and regional environmental analysis, demographic research, etc. This project has been supported by the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) , the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) and NCGIA. Output from the first stage of the project includes a set of raster data sets of population density and total population figures. To view these figures and additional information on the Global Demography Project, link to "http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/gdp/pop.html#GLOBAL" [Summary provided by the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis]