SENEGAL8: Administrative Units Raster Model of Senegal, 1987

SENEGAL8.IMG is a raster model of Senegal's administrative units created in April 1987. The model was developed by UNEP/GRID-Geneva in cooperation with the Catholic University of Louvain and its Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) as part of the CISFAM project. It is stored in the IDRISI format with a Platte-Carree projection resampled to lat/lon.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical administrative boundaries for Senegal based on the raster model.
• Integrating demographic output data into famine management models as described in the CISFAM project.
• Studying the spatial distribution of administrative units for historical mapping exercises.

Strengths

• Based on a source map from Institut Geographique National, Paris at a scale of 1:5000000.
• Has a defined publication date of April 1987.
• Projection information (Platte-Carree, resampled to lat/lon) is provided.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

UNEP/GRID-Geneva, Catholic University of Louvain, Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).

Collection Method

Created as part of an exploratory modelling exercise for the CISFAM project.

Time Range

Publication date April 1987.

Freshness

Publication date is April 1987; last update is unknown.

Geography

Senegal.