Using satellite imagery to understand and promote sustainable development

M Burke, A Driscoll, DB Lobell, S Ermon - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Accurate and comprehensive measurements of a range of sustainable
development outcomes are fundamental inputs into both research and policy. For instance …

[HTML][HTML] The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use

S Leyk, AE Gaughan, SB Adamo… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
Population data represent an essential component in studies focusing on human–nature
interrelationships, disaster risk assessment and environmental health. Several recent efforts …

Urban biodiversity and the importance of scale

K Uchida, RV Blakey, JR Burger, DS Cooper… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Many ecological and evolutionary processes are affected by urbanization, but cities vary by
orders of magnitude in their human population size and areal extent. To quantify and …

Global spatio-temporally harmonised datasets for producing high-resolution gridded population distribution datasets

CT Lloyd, H Chamberlain, D Kerr, G Yetman… - Big earth …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Multi-temporal, globally consistent, high-resolution human population datasets provide
consistent and comparable population distributions in support of mapping sub-national …

Social sensing from street-level imagery: A case study in learning spatio-temporal urban mobility patterns

F Zhang, L Wu, D Zhu, Y Liu - ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Street-level imagery has covered the comprehensive landscape of urban areas. Compared
to satellite imagery, this new source of image data has the advantage in fine-grained …

[HTML][HTML] “Domains of deprivation framework” for mapping slums, informal settlements, and other deprived areas in LMICs to improve urban planning and policy: A …

A Abascal, N Rothwell, A Shonowo… - … , environment and urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
The majority of urban inhabitants in low-and middle-income country (LMIC) cities live in
deprived urban areas. However, policy efforts and the monitoring of global goals and …

Planning universal accessibility to public health care in sub-Saharan Africa

G Falchetta, AT Hammad… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Achieving universal health care coverage—a key target of the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goal number 3—requires accessibility to health care services for all. Currently …

[PDF][PDF] 中国乡镇人口分布时空变化及其影响因素

尹旭, 王婧, 李裕瑞, 封志明, 戚伟 - GEOGRAPHICAL …, 2022 - researchgate.net
精细尺度的人口变化研究对于理解, 模拟和调控人地系统具有重要参考价值,
乡镇级的人口数据可以精细化揭示中国人口时空分布的演变特征. 本文建立了2010 年和2015 …

Coastal proximity of populations in 22 Pacific Island Countries and Territories

NL Andrew, P Bright, L de la Rua, SJ Teoh, M Vickers - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The coastal zones of Small Island States are hotspots of human habitation and economic
endeavour. In the Pacific region, as elsewhere, there are large gaps in understandings of …

Building a data platform for cross-country urban health studies: the SALURBAL study

DA Quistberg, AV Diez Roux, U Bilal, K Moore… - Journal of urban …, 2019 - Springer
Studies examining urban health and the environment must ensure comparability of
measures across cities and countries. We describe a data platform and process that …