Published December 16, 2024 | Version v1

Global human modification datasets of terrestrial ecosystems for 2022

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Conservation Planning Technologies
  • 1. ROR icon The Nature Conservancy

Description

We developed datasets on the human modification of global terrestrial ecosystems for 2022. The methods and data sources associated with these data are fully described in: 

Theobald, D.M., Oakleaf, J.R., Moncrieff, G., Voigt, M., Kiesecker, J., and Kennedy, C.M. <in review>. Global extent and change in human modification of terrestrial ecosystems from 1990 to 2022. Scientific Data.

For 2022, raster datasets are provided in cloud-optimized GeoTIFF format  at 300 m resolution (EPSG:4326). The naming convention is as follows: HMv2024080101_<year>c_<type>_300, where <year> is 2022; “s” signifies "static" data (i.e., do not calculate change with 1990-2020 datsets); and <type> is an intermediate aggregation of threats at for each IUCN taxonomy class, where: AA=all threats combined, AG=agricultural, BU=residential, commercial and recreation areas, EX=energy production and mining; FR=biological resource use; HI=human accessibility (HA and HI are interchangeable); NS=natural systems modification; PO=pollution; and TI=transportation and service corridors. Values are floating-point numbers, ranging from 0.0 - 1.0 (no modification, full modified). 

Note that these data are available as Google Earth Engine assets via this script (including 90 m): https://code.earthengine.google.com/1b7b5976fdd6189c6533ca00a46386d1

The Google Earth Engine script to clip out custom extents and export to GeoTIFF is here: https://code.earthengine.google.com/44c9f092472edb9bac3c45096aa5091d

Please see companion repo here for datasets for 1990-2020: https://zenodo.org/uploads/14449495.

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