• Purpose
  To provide a map of the wildest areas in geographic projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.
• DOI

  10.7927/H4VM496V

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Data Dates

Creation	2002-12-31T00:00:00.000Z
Last Revision	2002-12-31T00:00:00.000Z

Processing Level
3
Quality
• Collection Progress

  Complete

• Use Constraints

  The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York hold the copyright of this dataset. Users are prohibited from any commercial, non-free resale, or redistribution without explicit written permission from WCS or CIESIN. Users should acknowledge WCS and CIESIN as the source used in the creation of any reports, publications, new data sets, derived products, or services resulting from the use of this data set. WCS or CIESIN also request reprints of any publications and notification of any redistributing efforts.

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  Registration is required to download the dataset. Access is immediate after registration.

Publication References

• Title: Last of the Wild Project, Version 1, 2002 (LWP-1): Global Human Footprint Dataset (Geographic)

  Publication Date: 2002-12-31

  Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

  Author(s): Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University

  DOI: 10.7927/H4CN71V6

  Online Resource: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4CN71V6

• Title: Last of the Wild Project, Version 1, 2002 (LWP-1): Global Human Footprint Dataset (IGHP)

  Publication Date: 2002-12-31

  Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

  Author(s): Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University

  DOI: 10.7927/H47W694W

  Online Resource: https://doi.org/10.7927/H47W694W

• Title: Last of the Wild Project, Version 1, 2002 (LWP-1): Last of the Wild Dataset (Geographic)

  Publication Date: 2002-12-31

  Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

  Author(s): Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University

  DOI: 10.7927/H4445JDG

  Online Resource: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4445JDG

• Title: Last of the Wild Project, Version 1, 2002 (LWP-1): Last of the Wild Dataset (IGHP)

  Publication Date: 2002-12-31

  Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

  Author(s): Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University

  DOI: 10.7927/H40C4SPR

  Online Resource: https://doi.org/10.7927/H40C4SPR

• Title: Last of the Wild Project, Version 1, 2002 (LWP-1): Top One Percent Wild Areas Dataset (IGHP)

  Publication Date: 2002-12-31

  Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

  Author(s): Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University

  DOI: 10.7927/H4QV3JG4

  Online Resource: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4QV3JG4

• Title: The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild

  Publication Date: 2002-10-01

  Author(s): Sanderson, E. W., M. Jaiteh, M. A. Levy, K. H. Redford, A. V. Wannebo, and G. Woolmer

  Series: BioScience

  Volume: 52

  Issue: 10

  Pages: 891-904

  DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0891:THFATL]2.0.CO;2

Projects

Coverage Type	Zone Identifier	Geometry	Granule Representation
HORIZONTAL		CARTESIAN	CARTESIAN

Resolution and Coordinate System

Geodetic Model:

Datum Name	Ellipsoid Name	Semi Major Axis	Flattening Ratio Denominator
World Geodetic System 1984	WGS84	6378137	298.257224

Horizontal Data Resolution

• Generic Resolutions

  • Generic Resolution 1

    X Dimension

    0.00833 Not provided

    Y Dimension

    0.00833 Not provided

Location Keywords

• • GEOGRAPHIC REGION
  • GLOBAL

• SEDAC

  ARCHIVER, DISTRIBUTOR

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