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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4457771 2023-05-15T18:23:06+02:00 qdgc Benin Ragnvald Larsem 2021-01-22 https://zenodo.org/record/4457771 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4457771 unknown doi:10.5281/zenodo.4457770 https://zenodo.org/communities/qdgc https://zenodo.org/record/4457771 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4457771 oai:zenodo.org:4457771 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Benin Africa geopackage qdgc geocode info:eu-repo/semantics/other dataset 2021 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.445777110.5281/zenodo.4457770 2023-03-10T21:32:10Z QDGC tables delivered in geopackage file - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - QDGC represents a way of making (almost) equal area squares covering a specific area to represent specific qualities of the area covered. The squares themselves are based on the degree squares covering earth. Around the equator we have 360 longitudinal lines , and from the north to the south pole we have 180 latitudinal lines. Together this gives us 64800 segments or tiles covering earth. Within each geopackage file you will find a number of tables with these names: -tbl_qdgc_01 -tbl_qdgc_02 -tbl_qdgc_03 -tbl_qdgc_04 -tbl_qdgc_05 -etc The attributes for each table are: qdgc Unique Quarter Degree Grid Cell reference string area_reference Country level_qdgc QDGC level cellsize degrees decimal degree for the longitudal and latitudal length of the cell lon_center Longitude center of the cell lat_center Latitudal center of the cell area_km2 Calculated area for the cell geom Geometry Metadata --- Geodata GCS_WGS_1984 Datum: D_WGS_1984 Prime Meridian: 0 Areas are calculated with different versions of Albers Equal Area Conic using the PostGIS function st_area. For the African continent I have used Africa Albers Equal Area Conic which will look like this: - st_area(st_transform(geom, 102022))/1000000) Licensing --- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Conditions --- Delivered to the user as-is. No guarantees. If you find errors, please tell me and I will try to fix it. Suggestions for improvements can be addressed to the github repository: https://github.com/ragnvald/qdgc Thankyou --- The work has over the years been supported and received advice and moral support from many organisations and stakeholders. Here are some of them: - Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute - Dept of Biology, NTNU, Norway - Norwegian Environment Agency - Eivin Røskaft, Steven Prager, Howard Frederick, Julian Blanc, Honori Maliti, Paul Ramsey References --- * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QDGC * ... Dataset South pole Zenodo Norway South Pole |
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QDGC tables delivered in geopackage file - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - QDGC represents a way of making (almost) equal area squares covering a specific area to represent specific qualities of the area covered. The squares themselves are based on the degree squares covering earth. Around the equator we have 360 longitudinal lines , and from the north to the south pole we have 180 latitudinal lines. Together this gives us 64800 segments or tiles covering earth. Within each geopackage file you will find a number of tables with these names: -tbl_qdgc_01 -tbl_qdgc_02 -tbl_qdgc_03 -tbl_qdgc_04 -tbl_qdgc_05 -etc The attributes for each table are: qdgc Unique Quarter Degree Grid Cell reference string area_reference Country level_qdgc QDGC level cellsize degrees decimal degree for the longitudal and latitudal length of the cell lon_center Longitude center of the cell lat_center Latitudal center of the cell area_km2 Calculated area for the cell geom Geometry Metadata --- Geodata GCS_WGS_1984 Datum: D_WGS_1984 Prime Meridian: 0 Areas are calculated with different versions of Albers Equal Area Conic using the PostGIS function st_area. For the African continent I have used Africa Albers Equal Area Conic which will look like this: - st_area(st_transform(geom, 102022))/1000000) Licensing --- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Conditions --- Delivered to the user as-is. No guarantees. If you find errors, please tell me and I will try to fix it. Suggestions for improvements can be addressed to the github repository: https://github.com/ragnvald/qdgc Thankyou --- The work has over the years been supported and received advice and moral support from many organisations and stakeholders. Here are some of them: - Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute - Dept of Biology, NTNU, Norway - Norwegian Environment Agency - Eivin Røskaft, Steven Prager, Howard Frederick, Julian Blanc, Honori Maliti, Paul Ramsey References --- * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QDGC * ... |
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