New Perspectives for Mapping Global Population Distribution Using World Settlement Footprint Products

New Perspectives for Mapping Global Population Distribution Using World Settlement Footprint Products

In the production of gridded population maps, remotely sensed, human settlement datasets rank among the most important geographical factors to estimate population densities and distributions at regional and global scales. Within this context, the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has developed a new sui...

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Main Authors: Daniela Palacios-Lopez, Felix Bachofer, Thomas Esch, Wieke Heldens, Andreas Hirner, Mattia Marconcini, Alessandro Sorichetta, Julian Zeidler, Claudia Kuenzer, Stefan Dech, Andrew J. Tatem, Peter Reinartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-10-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
global population distribution mapping
world settlement footprint
percent impervious surface
dasymetric mapping
settlement size complexity index
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/21/6056

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