Americas Datasets
Americas Datasets
Peer-reviewed raster-based population distribution datasets having a resolution of 3 arc seconds (approximately 100m at the equator) and created using a Random Forest-based dasymetric mapping approach (Stevens et al., 2015; see Other References in the Metadata) to disaggregate official population count data for 28 countries located in Latin America and the Caribbean – FILENAME CONVENTION: ISO_ppp/pph_v2b_YEAR_UNadj.tif = Country (identified by its unique ISO code) population per pixel (ppp)/per hectare (pph) dataset referring to a specific year (YEAR) adjusted to match United Nations national estimates (UNadj) and produced using the version 2b (v2b) of the WorldPop-RF code available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1491490 (Stevens et al., 2015; see Related Material in the Metadata).
Sorichetta, Alessandro
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Hornby, Graeme
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Stevens, Forrest R.
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Gaughan, Andrea E.
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Linard, Catherine
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Tatem, Andrew
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Sorichetta, Alessandro
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Hornby, Graeme
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Stevens, Forrest R.
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Gaughan, Andrea E.
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Linard, Catherine
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Tatem, Andrew
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Sorichetta, Alessandro, Hornby, Graeme, Stevens, Forrest R., Gaughan, Andrea E., Linard, Catherine and Tatem, Andrew
(2015)
Americas Datasets.
Harvard Dataverse
doi:10.7910/DVN/PUGPVR
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Abstract
Peer-reviewed raster-based population distribution datasets having a resolution of 3 arc seconds (approximately 100m at the equator) and created using a Random Forest-based dasymetric mapping approach (Stevens et al., 2015; see Other References in the Metadata) to disaggregate official population count data for 28 countries located in Latin America and the Caribbean – FILENAME CONVENTION: ISO_ppp/pph_v2b_YEAR_UNadj.tif = Country (identified by its unique ISO code) population per pixel (ppp)/per hectare (pph) dataset referring to a specific year (YEAR) adjusted to match United Nations national estimates (UNadj) and produced using the version 2b (v2b) of the WorldPop-RF code available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1491490 (Stevens et al., 2015; see Related Material in the Metadata).
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Published date: 2015
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Related Publication: Sorichetta A. et al. High-resolution gridded population datasets for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2010, 2015, and 2020. Sci. Data (accepted for publication).
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Population, Health & Wellbeing (PHeW), WorldPop, GeoData, Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute
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Local EPrints ID: 380090
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/380090
PURE UUID: 2889b6e5-3d27-4690-83aa-9bfa2176058d
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Date deposited: 06 Aug 2015 09:05
Last modified: 06 May 2023 01:48
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Forrest R. Stevens
Creator:
Andrea E. Gaughan
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Catherine Linard
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