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Subject:        High-resolution census data for Katrina relief
Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2005
From:   Jane Read <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Angela Cope <[log in to unmask]>



 Note: the link to the data is also available from the UCGIS web page
via the GIS Resources for Hurricane Katrina link.


ANNOUNCEMENT
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We have just made publicly available moderate and high resolution grids
of
US census data for the gulf-states, at:
http://beta.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/katrina2005.html .These data are
derived from the census block data, and additional forthcoming variables
(in
income, housing stock, and public assistance derived from the
block-group
data) will soon be made available. The data are gridded rather than the
native census vector data for easy in analysis with geophysical and
other
geographic data. We are undertaking some of these analyses ourselves, at
Columbia University, (and I can inform you of findings as they become
available,) but our first priority has been to make the grids publicly
available and provide them to the some of the agencies providing relief
in
the region. The data are available for download from the above URL. I
hope
that they may be useful to the UCGIS community.

Cordially yours,

Deborah Balk


Deborah Balk
Associate Research Scientist and Project Scientist (SEDAC) CIESIN
(Center
for International Earth Science Information Network) Columbia University
(www.ciesin.columbia.edu)
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Phone:  (845) 365-8965 (office)
        (845) 664-4223 (mobile)
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