Gridded population maps informed by different built settlement products
Gridded population maps informed by different built settlement products
The spatial distribution of humans on the earth is critical knowledge that informs many disciplines and is available in a spatially explicit manner through gridded population techniques. While many approaches exist to produce specialized gridded population maps, little has been done to explore how remotely sensed, built-area datasets might be used to dasymetrically constrain these estimates. This study presents the effectiveness of three different high-resolution built area datasets for producing gridded population estimates through the dasymetric disaggregation of census counts in Haiti, Malawi, Madagascar, Nepal, Rwanda, and Thailand. Modeling techniques include a binary dasymetric redistribution, a random forest with a dasymetric component, and a hybrid of the previous two. The relative merits of these approaches and the data are discussed with regards to studying human populations and related spatially explicit phenomena. Results showed that the accuracy of random forest and hybrid models was comparable in five of six countries.
gridded population distribution, geography, built areas, remote sensing, geographic information systems, random forest, regression, binary dasymetric
Reed, Fennis J.
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Gaughan, Andrea E.
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Stevens, Forrest R.
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Yetman, Greg
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Sorichetta, Alessandro
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September 2018
Reed, Fennis J.
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Gaughan, Andrea E.
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Stevens, Forrest R.
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Yetman, Greg
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Reed, Fennis J., Gaughan, Andrea E., Stevens, Forrest R., Yetman, Greg, Sorichetta, Alessandro and Tatem, Andrew J.
(2018)
Gridded population maps informed by different built settlement products.
Data, 3 (33).
(doi:10.3390/data3030033).
Abstract
The spatial distribution of humans on the earth is critical knowledge that informs many disciplines and is available in a spatially explicit manner through gridded population techniques. While many approaches exist to produce specialized gridded population maps, little has been done to explore how remotely sensed, built-area datasets might be used to dasymetrically constrain these estimates. This study presents the effectiveness of three different high-resolution built area datasets for producing gridded population estimates through the dasymetric disaggregation of census counts in Haiti, Malawi, Madagascar, Nepal, Rwanda, and Thailand. Modeling techniques include a binary dasymetric redistribution, a random forest with a dasymetric component, and a hybrid of the previous two. The relative merits of these approaches and the data are discussed with regards to studying human populations and related spatially explicit phenomena. Results showed that the accuracy of random forest and hybrid models was comparable in five of six countries.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 August 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 September 2018
Published date: September 2018
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gridded population distribution, geography, built areas, remote sensing, geographic information systems, random forest, regression, binary dasymetric
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Local EPrints ID: 430889
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/430889
ISSN: 2306-5729
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