Allocating people to pixels: A review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use

The paper compares and discusses a set of large-scale (global and continental) gridded datasets representing population counts or densities.

Author Name(s):

Leyk, S.; Gaughan, A. E.; Adamo, S. B.; de Sherbinin, A.; Balk, D.; Freire, S.; Rose, A.; Stevens, F. R.; Blankespoor, B.; Frye, C.; Comenetz, J.; Sorichetta, A.; MacManus, K.; Pistolesi, L.; Levy, M.; Tatem, A. J.

Citation:

Leyk, S., Gaughan, A. E., Adamo, S. B., de Sherbinin, A., Balk, D., Freire, S., Rose, A., Stevens, F. R., Blankespoor, B., Frye, C., Comenetz, J., Sorichetta, A., MacManus, K., Pistolesi, L., Levy, M., and Tatem, A. J. 2019. Allocating people to pixels: A review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., 2019: 1-30

Publication type:

Articles

Journal Article

Publication year:

2019

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-82

Link(s):

https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2019-82/

Biome/Habitat:

Multiple Habitats

Population: