Research Article

Spatial Identification and Distribution Pattern of the Complexity of Rural Poverty in China Using Multisource Spatial Data

Table 2

The sources of the data.

Data set nameData source

The administrative boundary vector diagramThe 1 : 4,000,000 database of National Geographic Center for Basic Data (https://www.ngcc.cn/ngcc/html/1/index.html)
Digital elevation model (DEM) dataU.S. Geological survey (USGS) website (https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/HYDRO1K)
NPP dataNASA’s MODIS product website (https://ladsweb.nascom.nasa.gov)
The data of the amount of precipitationChina Meteorological Data Network (http://data.cma.cn/)
The nighttime light dataNational Geophysical Data Center of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (https://ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/download.html)
Social-economy statistical dataThe China Regional Economic Statistics Yearbook published in 2014