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Armenia 100m. Covariates
Distance to open-water coastline, Armenia

The dataset is available to download in Geotiff format at a resolution of 3 arc (approximately 100m at the equator). The projection is Geographic Coordinate System, WGS84. The value of each grid cell represents the distance (in kilometres) from its centre to the nearest open-water coastline.

Data Source: Census data sources (for the whole 2000-2020 period)

Methodology: The geodesic distance from each grid cell centre to the nearest open-water coastline has been calculated using the haversine formula and a global gridded open-water coastline dataset described to avoid edge effects at the country boundaries. The global gridded coastline datasets have been created following the description in Lloyd, C. T., H. Chamberlain, D. Kerr, G. Yetman, L. Pistolesi, F. R. Stevens, A. E. Gaughan, J. J. Nieves, G. Hornby, K. MacManus, P. Sinha, M. Bondarenko, A. Sorichetta, and A. J. Tatem, 2019. 'Global Spatio-temporally Harmonised Datasets for Producing High-resolution Gridded Population Distribution Datasets'. Big Earth Data (https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2019.1625151).

Region : Armenia
DOI : 10.5258/SOTON/WP00644
Date of production : 2018-11-02
Recommended citation

WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton; Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville; Departement de Geographie, Universite de Namur) and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University (2018). Global High Resolution Population Denominators Project - Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1134076). https://dx.doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00644

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