In this paper we investigate whether satellite imagery in combination with land cover information and census data can be used to create inexpensive, high resolution and easily-updatable settlement and population distribution maps over large areas. (from Background)
The paper looks into the implications of the hazardous living conditions of the urban poor in Africa.
The author revisits Malthus and Boserup via an extensive study of agrarian dynamics in Burundi.
This section of the web site offers users the capability to view samples from the Central African GIS datasets contained in the final CARPE CD-ROM version dowload all available datasets of the CD-ROM and view/ dowload additional GIS layers not contained in the CD-ROM that were produced by UMD/NASA. The coverages are in ESRI shapefile and ARC/INFO export files format. Each page contains downloadable arc/info/view data layers in a zip format that is readable by both PC and UNIX machines.
