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Global spatio-temporally harmonised datasets for producing high-resolution gridded population distribution datasets

Global spatio-temporally harmonised datasets for producing high-resolution gridded population distribution datasets
Global spatio-temporally harmonised datasets for producing high-resolution gridded population distribution datasets
Multi-temporal, globally consistent, high-resolution human population datasets provide consistent and comparable population distributions in support of mapping sub-national heterogeneities in health, wealth, and resource access, and monitoring change in these over time. The production of more reliable and spatially detailed population datasets is increasingly necessary due to the importance of improving metrics at sub-national and multi-temporal scales. This is in support of measurement and monitoring of UN Sustainable Development Goals and related agendas. In response to these agendas, a method has been developed to assemble and harmonise a unique, open access, archive of geospatial datasets. Datasets are provided as global, annual time series, where pertinent at the timescale of population analyses and where data is available, for use in the construction of population distribution layers. The archive includes sub-national census-based population estimates, matched to a geospatial layer denoting administrative unit boundaries, and a number of co-registered gridded geospatial factors that correlate strongly with population presence and density. Here, we describe these harmonised datasets and their limitations, along with the production workflow. Further, we demonstrate applications of the archive by producing multi-temporal gridded population outputs for Africa and using these to derive health and development metrics.
Human population, sub-national, global, spatial dataset, multi-temporal
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Lloyd, Christopher T.
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Tatem, Andrew
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Lloyd, Christopher T.
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Kerr, David
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Yetman, Greg
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Pistolesi, Linda
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Stevens, Forrest R.
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MacManus, Kytt
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Tatem, Andrew
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Lloyd, Christopher T., Chamberlain, Heather, Kerr, David, Yetman, Greg, Pistolesi, Linda, Stevens, Forrest R., Gaughan, Andrew E., Nieves, Jeremiah, Joseph, Hornby, Graeme, MacManus, Kytt, Sinha, Parmanand, Bondarenko, Maksym, Sorichetta, Alessandro and Tatem, Andrew (2019) Global spatio-temporally harmonised datasets for producing high-resolution gridded population distribution datasets. Big Earth Data, 3 (2), 108-139. (doi:10.1080/20964471.2019.1625151).

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Abstract

Multi-temporal, globally consistent, high-resolution human population datasets provide consistent and comparable population distributions in support of mapping sub-national heterogeneities in health, wealth, and resource access, and monitoring change in these over time. The production of more reliable and spatially detailed population datasets is increasingly necessary due to the importance of improving metrics at sub-national and multi-temporal scales. This is in support of measurement and monitoring of UN Sustainable Development Goals and related agendas. In response to these agendas, a method has been developed to assemble and harmonise a unique, open access, archive of geospatial datasets. Datasets are provided as global, annual time series, where pertinent at the timescale of population analyses and where data is available, for use in the construction of population distribution layers. The archive includes sub-national census-based population estimates, matched to a geospatial layer denoting administrative unit boundaries, and a number of co-registered gridded geospatial factors that correlate strongly with population presence and density. Here, we describe these harmonised datasets and their limitations, along with the production workflow. Further, we demonstrate applications of the archive by producing multi-temporal gridded population outputs for Africa and using these to derive health and development metrics.

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Submitted date: 15 May 2019
Accepted/In Press date: 25 May 2019
Published date: 18 June 2019
Keywords: Human population, sub-national, global, spatial dataset, multi-temporal

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Local EPrints ID: 433013
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/433013
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ORCID for Christopher T. Lloyd: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7435-8230
ORCID for Heather Chamberlain: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0828-6974
ORCID for Graeme Hornby: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2833-8711
ORCID for Maksym Bondarenko: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4958-6551
ORCID for Alessandro Sorichetta: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3576-5826
ORCID for Andrew Tatem: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7270-941X

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Date deposited: 06 Aug 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:22

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Author: David Kerr
Author: Greg Yetman
Author: Linda Pistolesi
Author: Forrest R. Stevens
Author: Andrew E. Gaughan
Author: Jeremiah, Joseph Nieves
Author: Graeme Hornby ORCID iD
Author: Kytt MacManus
Author: Parmanand Sinha
Author: Andrew Tatem ORCID iD

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