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View article: A stochastic approach to integerize floating-point estimates in gridded population mapping
A stochastic approach to integerize floating-point estimates in gridded population mapping Open
View article: Assessing the impacts of gridded population model choice on degree of urbanisation metrics
Assessing the impacts of gridded population model choice on degree of urbanisation metrics Open
Defining urban and rural areas is crucial for assessing the accessibility of services and opportunities that impact people worldwide. The Degree of Urbanisation framework, endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission, primarily uses populatio…
View article: “Happy Farmers” in Volta Delta, Ghana? Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Conditions and Happiness
“Happy Farmers” in Volta Delta, Ghana? Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Conditions and Happiness Open
Communities’ wellbeing in rural lower-middle-income countries is interlinked with climate and landscape characteristics. Rural inhabitants are often assumed to be “happy farmers”, content with their livelihoods and social connections, desp…
View article: Comparing lagged impacts of mobility changes and environmental factors on COVID-19 waves in rural and urban India: A Bayesian spatiotemporal modelling study
Comparing lagged impacts of mobility changes and environmental factors on COVID-19 waves in rural and urban India: A Bayesian spatiotemporal modelling study Open
Previous research in India has identified urbanisation, human mobility and population demographics as key variables associated with higher district level COVID-19 incidence. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of mobility patterns in rura…
View article: “Where and Whom You Collect Weightings from Matters…” Capturing Wellbeing Priorities Within a Vulnerable Context: A Case Study of Volta Delta, Ghana
“Where and Whom You Collect Weightings from Matters…” Capturing Wellbeing Priorities Within a Vulnerable Context: A Case Study of Volta Delta, Ghana Open
View article: Mapping seasonal human mobility across Africa using mobile phone location history and geospatial data
Mapping seasonal human mobility across Africa using mobile phone location history and geospatial data Open
View article: Assessing the impacts of gridded population model choice on degree of urbanisation metrics
Assessing the impacts of gridded population model choice on degree of urbanisation metrics Open
View article: Opposing objective and subjective wellbeing outcomes within an environmentally vulnerable delta: a case study of Volta Delta, Ghana
Opposing objective and subjective wellbeing outcomes within an environmentally vulnerable delta: a case study of Volta Delta, Ghana Open
Introduction Despite a growing interest in the measurement and conceptualization of wellbeing, the integration within sustainability research, and the understanding of how different wellbeing outcomes relate, is limited. Many studies focus…
View article: Is the fulfilment of objective wellbeing reflected in subjective wellbeing? A case study of vulnerable communities in Volta Delta, Ghana
Is the fulfilment of objective wellbeing reflected in subjective wellbeing? A case study of vulnerable communities in Volta Delta, Ghana Open
There is growing interest in the measurement and conceptualisation of wellbeing due to its increasing importance within policy outcomes; however, the understanding of how different wellbeing outcomes associate within sustainability researc…
View article: Supplementary information for: Is the fulfilment of objective wellbeing reflected in subjective wellbeing? A case study of vulnerable communities in Volta Delta, Ghana
Supplementary information for: Is the fulfilment of objective wellbeing reflected in subjective wellbeing? A case study of vulnerable communities in Volta Delta, Ghana Open
View article: Exploring the Relationship between Temporal Fluctuations in Satellite Nightlight Imagery and Human Mobility across Africa
Exploring the Relationship between Temporal Fluctuations in Satellite Nightlight Imagery and Human Mobility across Africa Open
Mobile phone data have been increasingly used over the past decade or more as a pretty reliable indicator of human mobility to measure population movements and the associated changes in terms of population presence and density at multiple …
View article: High-resolution gridded population datasets for Latin America and the Caribbean using official statistics
High-resolution gridded population datasets for Latin America and the Caribbean using official statistics Open
View article: Screening Rural Data Sources
Screening Rural Data Sources Open
This document presents an initial screening of datasets that are relevant to capture rural diversity and to create novel indicators for rural areas. Following a semi-structured format of discovery and evaluation, we have documented 90 diff…
View article: Exploring methods for mapping seasonal population changes using mobile phone data
Exploring methods for mapping seasonal population changes using mobile phone data Open
Data accurately representing the population distribution at the subnational level within countries is critical to policy and decision makers for many applications. Call data records (CDRs) have shown great promise for this, providing much …
View article: Global holiday datasets for understanding seasonal human mobility and population dynamics
Global holiday datasets for understanding seasonal human mobility and population dynamics Open
View article: Towards an Improved Large-Scale Gridded Population Dataset: A Pan-European Study on the Integration of 3D Settlement Data into Population Modelling
Towards an Improved Large-Scale Gridded Population Dataset: A Pan-European Study on the Integration of 3D Settlement Data into Population Modelling Open
Large-scale gridded population datasets available at the global or continental scale have become an important source of information in applications related to sustainable development. In recent years, the emergence of new population models…
View article: Practical geospatial and sociodemographic predictors of human mobility
Practical geospatial and sociodemographic predictors of human mobility Open
View article: Improving the Accuracy of Gridded Population Estimates in Cities and Slums to Monitor SDG 11: Evidence from a Simulation Study in Namibia
Improving the Accuracy of Gridded Population Estimates in Cities and Slums to Monitor SDG 11: Evidence from a Simulation Study in Namibia Open
People living in slums and other deprived areas in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) cities are under-represented in censuses, and subsequently in "top-down" gridded population estimates. Modelled gridded population data are a unique s…
View article: Implications for Tracking SDG Indicator Metrics with Gridded Population Data
Implications for Tracking SDG Indicator Metrics with Gridded Population Data Open
Achieving the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires accurate, consistent, and accessible population data. Yet many low- and middle-income countries lack reliable or recent census data at the sufficiently fi…
View article: Author correction: ASPHAA: A GIS‐based algorithm to calculate cell area on a latitude–longitude (geographic) regular grid
Author correction: ASPHAA: A GIS‐based algorithm to calculate cell area on a latitude–longitude (geographic) regular grid Open
Furthermore, the article cites Snyder, J. P. (1926). Map projections: A working manual (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. which should read Snyder, J. P. (1987). Map projections: A…
View article: Geographical distribution of fertility rates in 70 low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income countries, 2010–16: a subnational analysis of cross-sectional surveys
Geographical distribution of fertility rates in 70 low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income countries, 2010–16: a subnational analysis of cross-sectional surveys Open
View article: Practical geospatial and sociodemographic predictors of human mobility
Practical geospatial and sociodemographic predictors of human mobility Open
Background : Understanding seasonal human mobility at subnational scales has important implications across sciences, from urban planning efforts to disease modelling and control. Assessing how, when, and where populations move over the cou…
View article: High-Resolution Gridded Population Datasets: Exploring the Capabilities of the World Settlement Footprint 2019 Imperviousness Layer for the African Continent
High-Resolution Gridded Population Datasets: Exploring the Capabilities of the World Settlement Footprint 2019 Imperviousness Layer for the African Continent Open
The field of human population mapping is constantly evolving, leveraging the increasing availability of high-resolution satellite imagery and the advancements in the field of machine learning. In recent years, the emergence of global built…
View article: Measuring the contribution of built-settlement data to global population mapping
Measuring the contribution of built-settlement data to global population mapping Open
View article: Description of methods for South Sudan 2020 gridded population estimates from census projections adjusted for displacement, version 2.0.
Description of methods for South Sudan 2020 gridded population estimates from census projections adjusted for displacement, version 2.0. Open
This report describes the method used to produce gridded estimates of population sizes, that account for displacement, at approximately 100 m resolution with national coverage across South Sudan. The method uses publicly available census p…
View article: popRF: Random Forest-informed Population Disaggregation R package
popRF: Random Forest-informed Population Disaggregation R package Open
Disaggregating census-based areal population counts to finer gridded population surfaces using Random Forest algorithm to determine the target area weights.
View article: Predicting Near-Future Built-Settlement Expansion Using Relative Changes in Small Area Populations
Predicting Near-Future Built-Settlement Expansion Using Relative Changes in Small Area Populations Open
Advances in the availability of multi-temporal, remote sensing-derived global built-/human-settlements datasets can now provide globally consistent definitions of “human-settlement” at unprecedented spatial fineness. Yet, these data only p…
View article: Modeling human migration across spatial scales in Colombia
Modeling human migration across spatial scales in Colombia Open
Human mobility, both short and long term, are important considerations in the study of numerous systems. Economic and technological advances have led to a more interconnected global community, further increasing the need for considerations…
View article: The COVID-19 pandemic as experienced by the individual
The COVID-19 pandemic as experienced by the individual Open
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has progressed with varying degrees of intensity in individual countries, suggesting it is important to analyse factors that vary between them. We study measures of `population-weighted density', which capture…
View article: Harmonised global datasets of wind and solar farm locations and power
Harmonised global datasets of wind and solar farm locations and power Open