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Trans-African Regional Geo-data for the Energy Transition (TARGET) model

Dataset title Trans-African Regional Geo-data for the Energy Transition (TARGET) model
Dataset creators Darren Jones, British Geological Survey
Dataset theme Geoscientific Information
Dataset abstract

A geographic information system (GIS) containing geo-data for the energy transition across continental Africa created by extracting data from open sources into a series of shapefiles and rasters containing information on culture, geology, geothermal and geophysical data. This data is stored in the World Geodetic System (WGS) 1984 Geographic Projection System.
Dataset content dates 1st April 2021-30th March 2022
Dataset spatial coverage Africa
Dataset supply format Shapefile (.shp)
Layerfile (.lyrx)
Raster (.tif)
Dataset language English-United Kingdom
Dataset discovery metadata record Discovery Link to the dataset's BGS Discovery Metadata record
Dataset publisher NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre
Dataset publication date 21st April 2022
Dataset digital object identifier(DOI) 10.5285/e9ca452b-5cca-4953-b5a4-397c4d622ea5
Dataset citation text Jones, D.J.R. (2022). Trans-African Regional Geo-data for the Energy Transition (TARGET) model. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/e9ca452b-5cca-4953-b5a4-397c4d622ea5
Constraints and terms of use This data set is available under Open Government Licence, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying any reproduced materials: "Contains data supplied by permission of the Natural Environment Research Council [YEAR]".
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