Accessibility to major cities dataset is modeled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis, computed for the largest cities (>100k habitants) in the country.
Dakar - 2 646 503, Touba 753 315, Thiès 317 763, Kaolack 233 708, Mbour 232 777, Rufisque 221 066, Saint-Louis 209 752, Ziguinchor 205 294, Diourbel 133 705, Louga 104 349.
This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO' s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (or optimal location).
Data publication: 2022-07-04
Contact points:
Metadata Contact: FAO-Data
Resource Contact: Dariia Nesterenko
Data lineage:
Produced using
- OpenStreetMap data for roads, railways, and rivers. https://www.openstreetmap.org/
- UN Map country border. https://www.un.org/geospatial/
- The HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM. https://www.hydrosheds.org/
- GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer. https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download.php
Resource constraints:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)
Online resources:
Zipped TIF raster file for Accessibility: Travel Time-Cost to Major Cities (Senegal - ~ 500 m)
