The resident site distribution data of the Heihe River Basin- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

This data mainly includes the distribution of city, county, township and village level residential areas in the Heihe River Basin, and the data base year is 2009. The data is based on the existing data of residential areas in Heihe River Basin, the latest Google electronic map and the atlas of Gansu Province. There are two main attributes of the data, i.e. residential area classification and total name. The residential area classification is classified according to level 1 - City, level 2 - County, level 3 - Township and level 4 - village.

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. SHP format storage, can be read by ArcGIS

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National Basic Geographic Information Center. (2013). The resident site distribution data of the Heihe River Basin. A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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References literature

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2.LI Xin, WU Lizong, MA Mingguo, GE Yingchun, RAN Youhua, WANG Liangxu, NAN Zhuotong （ Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China） (View Details )

3.Li, X., Nan, Z.T., Cheng, G.D., Ding, Y.J., Wu, L.Z., Wang, L.X., Wang, J., Ran, Y.H., Li, H.X., Pan, X.D., & Zhu, Z.M. (2011). Toward an improved data stewardship and service for environmental and ecological science data in west China. International Journal of Digital Earth, 4(4): 347-359. DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2011.558123. (View Details | Download )

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