10.17608/k6.auckland.9870209.v2
Steven Manson
Steven
Manson
Tracy Kugler
Tracy
Kugler
David van Riper
David van
Riper
Jonathan Schroeder
Jonathan
Schroeder
Steven Ruggles
Steven
Ruggles
Geocomputational infrastructure for population-environment data. GeoComputation 2019
The University of Auckland
2019
Big data
population
environment
aggregate census
agricultural census
Geospatial Information Systems
2019-12-01 23:27:45
Conference contribution
https://auckland.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Geocomputational_infrastructure_for_population-environment_data/9870209
Geocomputation is increasingly integrated with spatial data infrastructure to develop and deliver massive datasets and attendant analysis and visualization capacity to a wide range of users. IPUMS Terra is spatial data infrastructure that develops and uses geocomputational approaches to provide one of the largest collections of integrated population and environment data in the world. In this paper, we describe new efforts to fundamentally change the landscape of population-environment data by integrating, preserving, and disseminating vast amounts of aggregate census and agricultural census data. We are developing data manipulation tools and workflow management approaches to transform and standardize data as well as capture metadata. These developments in turn facilitate the processing, documenting, and intake of tens of thousands of data tables into IPUMS Terra, which then are shared with the scientific community and the broader public to advance understanding of the population and agricultural systems that are central to many complex human-environment systems.