Sri Lanka 100m Population
Sri Lanka 100m Population
DATASET: Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2010 estimates of numbers of people per pixel ('ppp') and people per hectare ('pph'), with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and an additional version remaining unadjusted (modelled solely on census and covariate data).
REGION: Asia
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Random Forest
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example - LKA_ppp_v2b_2010_UNadj.tif = Sri Lanka (LKA) population per pixel (ppp), mapped using WorldPOP modelling version 2b (v2b) for 2010 (2010) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj).
DATE OF PRODUCTION: July 2015
Also included in download: (i) Population datasets produced using original census year data (2012), (ii) Metadata html file, (iii) Google Earth .kmz file
Sub-national, GIS, Disease burden, Population distribution, Dasymetric disaggregation
University of Southampton
WorldPop,
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WorldPop,
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Abstract
DATASET: Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2010 estimates of numbers of people per pixel ('ppp') and people per hectare ('pph'), with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and an additional version remaining unadjusted (modelled solely on census and covariate data).
REGION: Asia
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Random Forest
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example - LKA_ppp_v2b_2010_UNadj.tif = Sri Lanka (LKA) population per pixel (ppp), mapped using WorldPOP modelling version 2b (v2b) for 2010 (2010) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj).
DATE OF PRODUCTION: July 2015
Also included in download: (i) Population datasets produced using original census year data (2012), (ii) Metadata html file, (iii) Google Earth .kmz file
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Published date: 2015
Keywords:
Sub-national, GIS, Disease burden, Population distribution, Dasymetric disaggregation
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Local EPrints ID: 440304
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/440304
PURE UUID: 996a6b2f-3f94-4307-a7b7-148f3cc0934b
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Date deposited: 05 May 2020 16:38
Last modified: 05 May 2023 15:52
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