TPW & TPWN: 30 m Wilderness and Naturalness Maps of the Tibetan Plateau (2020)

The Tibetan Plateau is covered by 30-meter resolution raster datasets for wilderness extent and naturalness. The 2.2 GB collection includes files in formats like SHP and NC, generated using a hybrid Boolean–Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) framework. Junzhi Ye created these first operational products for any wilderness region above 4,000 m, last updated on 2026-05-22.

Use Cases

• Modeling diffuse grazing pressure based on the framework described.
• Assessing wilderness quality based on the naturalness index.
• Mapping high-altitude (>4000m) conservation areas based on the wilderness extent product.
• Conducting land-use change analysis on the Tibetan Plateau based on the 30m resolution data.

Strengths

• 2.2 GB of geospatial data at a 30-meter resolution.
• First operational wilderness products for any region above 4,000 meters.
• Explicitly incorporates diffuse grazing pressure within its modeling framework.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Junzhi Ye.

Collection Method

Generated using a hybrid Boolean–Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) framework.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 09:22:21; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tibetan Plateau