{"id":5561,"date":"2011-10-28T17:31:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/enews\/?p=5561"},"modified":"2019-01-08T01:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T01:18:19","slug":"trial-database-landscan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/2011\/10\/28\/trial-database-landscan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial Database: LandScan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wms.cartographic.com\/LandScan\/index.html\">The LandScan 2010 Global Population Database<\/a> was developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). \u00a0This dataset includes country-level demographic data, 1st level admin demographic data, pixel (1km\u00b2) level data, and a layer with area calculations for population density. Country and 1st level admin level data include age, gender, and age-by-gender population breakdowns. The pixel level data contains a total ambient population value for each cell. All data is georeferenced in the geographic projection WGS 1984. Included with the data is a toolbox for use with ESRI\u2019s spatial analyst extension as well as pre-symbolized layer files to use for symbolizing the data.<\/p>\n<p>This OSU Trial runs through 11\/26\/2011.<\/p>\n<p>Please tell us what you think.  Comments on this resource can be  submitted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/osulibrary.orst.edu\/collection_development\/electronicresources\/evalpub.htm\">electronic resource evaluation form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LandScan 2010 Global Population Database was developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). \u00a0This dataset includes country-level demographic data, 1st level admin demographic data, pixel (1km\u00b2) level data, and a layer with area calculations for population density. Country and 1st level admin level data include age,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/2011\/10\/28\/trial-database-landscan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1302512,1303471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9543,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions\/9543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}