Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) — biodiversity & natural habitat

Global NCP indicators from Chaplin-Kramer et al. (2019) — integer scores counting the Nature's Contributions to People a location ranks highly for. Two layers:

• ncp_biod_nathab — NCP weighted by biodiversity & natural habitat (0–20)
• ncp_only — NCP alone (0–19)

Source rasters are 2 km World Eckert IV (equal-area); reprojected to WGS84 for the COG assets and aggregated to H3 resolution 7 by area-weighted mean.

Assets

Each hex layer is one row per h7 cell (parents h6/h5, partitioned by h0), gap-free. The value column (ncp_biod_nathab / ncp_only) is the area-weighted mean indicator — an intensity: aggregate with AVG/MIN/MAX, never SUM.

Querying (DuckDB)

Query h7 directly — no GROUP BY/AVG collapse needed (one row per cell). This replaces the prior res-8 point-binned build, which left coverage gaps and ~1 row per source pixel.

Citation

Chaplin-Kramer, R., et al. (2019). Global modeling of nature's contributions to people. Science, 366(6462), 255–258. doi:10.1126/science.aaw3372