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The Top One Percent Wild Areas Dataset of the Last of the Wild Project, Version 1, 2002 (LWP-1) is derived from the LWP-1 Human Footprint Dataset. The gridded data are classified according to their raster value (wild = 0-1; not wild >1). The top 1% of the wild areas within each biome by realm are selected and identified. The dataset in Interrupted Goode Homolosine Projection (IGHP) is produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
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Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University, International Food Policy Research Institute-IFPRI, Bank, T. W., & Centro Internacional De Agricultura Tropical-CIAT. (2011). Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1): Urban Extents Grid (Version 1.00) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4GH9FVG Date Accessed: 2026-05-18
Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University, International Food Policy Research Institute-IFPRI, The World Bank, and Centro Internacional De Agricultura Tropical-CIAT. “Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1): Urban Extents Grid.” Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), 2011. doi:10.7927/H4GH9FVG. Date Accessed: 2026-05-18
Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University, et al. Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1): Urban Extents Grid. 1.00, Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), 2011, doi:10.7927/H4GH9FVG. Date Accessed: 2026-05-18
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