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Annually modelling built-settlements between remotely-sensed observations using relative changes in subnational populations and lights at night

Annually modelling built-settlements between remotely-sensed observations using relative changes in subnational populations and lights at night
Annually modelling built-settlements between remotely-sensed observations using relative changes in subnational populations and lights at night
Mapping urban features/human built-settlement extents at the annual time step has a wide variety of applications in demography, public health, sustainable development, and many other fields. Recently, while more multitemporal urban features/human built-settlement datasets have become available, issues still exist in remotely-sensed imagery due to spatial and temporal coverage, adverse atmospheric conditions, and expenses involved in producing such datasets. Remotely-sensed annual time-series of urban/built-settlement extents therefore do not yet exist and cover more than specific local areas or city-based regions. Moreover, while a few high-resolution global datasets of urban/built-settlement extents exist for key years, the observed date often deviates many years from the assigned one. These challenges make it difficult to increase temporal coverage while maintaining high fidelity in the spatial resolution. Here we describe an interpolative and flexible modelling framework for producing annual built-settlement extents. We use a combined technique of random forest and spatio-temporal dasymetric modelling with open source subnational data to produce annual 100 m × 100 m resolution binary built-settlement datasets in four test countries located in varying environmental and developmental contexts for test periods of five-year gaps. We find that in the majority of years, across all study areas, the model correctly identified between 85 and 99% of pixels that transition to built-settlement. Additionally, with few exceptions, the model substantially out performed a model that gave every pixel equal chance of transitioning to built-settlement in each year. This modelling framework shows strong promise for filling gaps in cross-sectional urban features/built-settlement datasets derived from remotely-sensed imagery, provides a base upon which to create urban future/built-settlement extent projections, and enables further exploration of the relationships between urban/built-settlement area and population dynamics.
Built-settlements, Dasymetric modelling, Population, Random forest, Spatial growth, Urban features
0198-9715
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Nieves, Jeremiah, J.
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Nieves, Jeremiah, J., Sorichetta, Alessandro, Linard, Catherine, Bondarenko, Maksym, Steele, Jessica, Stevens, Forrest R., Gaughan, Andrea E., Carioli, Alessandra, Clarke, Donna, Esch, Thomas and Tatem, Andrew (2020) Annually modelling built-settlements between remotely-sensed observations using relative changes in subnational populations and lights at night. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 80, 1-14, [101444]. (doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.101444).

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Mapping urban features/human built-settlement extents at the annual time step has a wide variety of applications in demography, public health, sustainable development, and many other fields. Recently, while more multitemporal urban features/human built-settlement datasets have become available, issues still exist in remotely-sensed imagery due to spatial and temporal coverage, adverse atmospheric conditions, and expenses involved in producing such datasets. Remotely-sensed annual time-series of urban/built-settlement extents therefore do not yet exist and cover more than specific local areas or city-based regions. Moreover, while a few high-resolution global datasets of urban/built-settlement extents exist for key years, the observed date often deviates many years from the assigned one. These challenges make it difficult to increase temporal coverage while maintaining high fidelity in the spatial resolution. Here we describe an interpolative and flexible modelling framework for producing annual built-settlement extents. We use a combined technique of random forest and spatio-temporal dasymetric modelling with open source subnational data to produce annual 100 m × 100 m resolution binary built-settlement datasets in four test countries located in varying environmental and developmental contexts for test periods of five-year gaps. We find that in the majority of years, across all study areas, the model correctly identified between 85 and 99% of pixels that transition to built-settlement. Additionally, with few exceptions, the model substantially out performed a model that gave every pixel equal chance of transitioning to built-settlement in each year. This modelling framework shows strong promise for filling gaps in cross-sectional urban features/built-settlement datasets derived from remotely-sensed imagery, provides a base upon which to create urban future/built-settlement extent projections, and enables further exploration of the relationships between urban/built-settlement area and population dynamics.

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Accepted/In Press date: 11 November 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 November 2019
Published date: March 2020
Additional Information: © 2019 The Authors.
Keywords: Built-settlements, Dasymetric modelling, Population, Random forest, Spatial growth, Urban features

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Local EPrints ID: 437171
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/437171
ISSN: 0198-9715
PURE UUID: 2623bf40-f74d-4a08-9250-781814d77b26
ORCID for Alessandro Sorichetta: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3576-5826
ORCID for Maksym Bondarenko: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4958-6551
ORCID for Andrew Tatem: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7270-941X

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Date deposited: 21 Jan 2020 17:31
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:50

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Author: Jeremiah, J. Nieves
Author: Catherine Linard
Author: Jessica Steele
Author: Forrest R. Stevens
Author: Andrea E. Gaughan
Author: Alessandra Carioli
Author: Donna Clarke
Author: Thomas Esch
Author: Andrew Tatem ORCID iD

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