High resolution population maps for low income nations: combining land cover and census in East Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Between 2005 and 2050, the human population is forecast to grow by 2.7 billion, with the vast majority of this growth occurring in low income countries. This growth is likely to have significant social, economic and environmental impacts, and make the achievement of international development goals more difficult. The measurement, monitoring and potential mitigation of these impacts require high resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions. In low income countries, however, where the changes will be concentrated, the least information on the distribution of population exists. 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-upda

SUBMITTER: Tatem AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2110897 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature