PREDISAN Project data details protected areas in Senegal and Mauritania, measured in square kilometres and categorized by country, departments, and municipality. The dataset is part of a Food and Nutrition Security Monitoring and Prediction System funded by AACID and the University of Granada. It was last updated on March 26, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze protected area coverage based on administrative categorization by country, department, and municipality.
- Model food security and nutrition risk based on spatial distribution of protected areas.
- Monitor humanitarian vulnerability for pastoral populations based on GIS analysis of protected land.
- Support policy planning for conservation and food security based on quantified area data.
Strengths
- Data is categorized by three administrative levels: country, departments, and municipality.
- Protected area information is expressed in square kilometres.
- Dataset is part of a funded project (PREDISAN) focused on AI and GIS analysis.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Geographic coverage is limited to Senegal and Mauritania.
Provenance
- Source
- Acción contra el hambre - GIS4tech
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-26 19:41:11.036323; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Senegal and Mauritania