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Mapping Environmental Injustices: Pitfalls and Potential of Geographic Information Systems.... Juliana Maantay

Asthma and Air Pollution in the Bronx: Methodological and Data.... Juliana Maantay

Project Kosovo: GIS and War Crimes Evidence. Alison Atkins

Programs
Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS Net)

Data and Tools
MODIS Rapid Response System.

NASA Satellite Data and Imagery Resources - Warehouse Inventory Search....

Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) Project. Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas

Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) Project

Item Type: Geodata
URL: http://web.ku.edu/~keds/

KEDS uses the automated coding of English-language news reports to generate political event data focusing on the Middle East, Balkans, and West Africa. These data are used in statistical early warning models to predict political change. The ten-year project is based in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas.