Estimating the size of urban populations using Landsat images: A case study of Bo, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Estimating the size of urban populations using Landsat images: A case study of Bo, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Background: This is the third paper in a 3-paper series evaluating alternative models for rapidly estimating neighborhood populations using limited survey data, augmented with aerial imagery. Methods: Bayesian methods were used to sample the large solution space of candidate regression models for es...

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Main Authors: Alejandre, J.D (Author), Ansumana, R. (Author), Bangura, U. (Author), Bockarie, A.S (Author), Coates, A. (Author), Hillson, R. (Author), Jacobsen, K.H (Author), Lamin, J.M (Author), Stenger, D.A (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2019
Subjects:
article
epidemiology
human
human experiment
Landsat
masking
MCMC
neighborhood
population density
population estimation
Population Estimation
remote sensing
Remote Sensing
satellite imagery
Sierra Leone
spatial analysis
Spatial Epidemiology
urban footprint
urban population
validation process
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