Introduction In low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), household survey data are a main source of information for planning, evaluation, and decision-making. Standard surveys are …
High resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions are vital for measuring impacts of population growth, monitoring human-environment interactions and …
During the past few decades, technologies such as remote sensing, geographical information systems, and global positioning systems have transformed the way the …
Population numbers at local levels are fundamental data for many applications, including the delivery and planning of services, election preparation, and response to disasters. In …
Recent years have seen substantial growth in openly available satellite and other geospatial data layers, which represent a range of metrics relevant to global human population …
Remote sensing image products (eg brightness of nighttime lights and land cover/land use types) have been widely used to disaggregate census data to produce gridded population …
Multi-temporal, globally consistent, high-resolution human population datasets provide consistent and comparable population distributions in support of mapping sub-national …
Although continental urban areas are relatively small, they are major drivers of environmental change at local, regional and global scales. Moreover, they are especially …