Community suitability of Gansu Sheng, China
Marginally suitable confidence B · live score 49
84
best land · p90
90%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 86
Land & water 68
Climate, growing & hazards 76
Autonomy & access 17
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityFood & forage diversityWater availability & quality
Within Gansu Sheng — 14 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Tianshui
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (89) ·
weakest Land & water (81)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 75
Dingxi
strongest Society, freedom & health (86) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (79)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 74
Pingliang
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (87) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (70)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 70
Linxia Hui
strongest Society, freedom & health (86) ·
weakest Land & water (77)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 69
Lanzhou
strongest Society, freedom & health (86) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (69)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 66
Baiyin
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 65
Qingyang
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 65
Jiayuguan
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 61
Jinchang
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 61
Longnan
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 61
Gannan Tibetan
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 55
Wuwei
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 52
Zhangye
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 50
Jiuquan
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 22
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Healthcare qualitycountry B WHO GHO
Disease / vector burden A Malaria Atlas + dengue Index P
Soil quality A SoilGrids (ISRIC)
Water availability & quality A WRI Aqueduct + AQUASTAT
Terrain & buildability A SRTM / NASADEM
Land cover & degradation A ESA WorldCover + Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity & alignment B Biodiversity Intactness Index
Climate & natural hazards A ThinkHazard + NASA FIRMS + USGS
Growing conditions A CHELSA / FAO GAEZ
Food & forage diversity B FAO GAEZ crop suitability + GLW
Coastal risk B Climate Central CoastalDEM
Energy potential A Global Solar Atlas + Global Wind Atlas
Natural building materials B SoilGrids clay + forest + geology
Environmental quality A SEDAC PM2.5 + VIIRS night-lights
Accessibility A Malaria Atlas friction surface
Remoteness / surroundings A GPWv4 population density
Contamination legacy C Maus mining polygons + WRI power plants
Phase-1 desk screening
These are desk numbers from open data. Soil tests, water rights and the welcome of actual neighbours all wait for a visit — we'd rather say so than pretend.
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