Assessing the use of global land cover data for guiding large area population distribution modelling.

ABSTRACT: Gridded population distribution data are finding increasing use in a wide range of fields, including resource allocation, disease burden estimation and climate change impact assessment. Land cover information can be used in combination with detailed settlement extents to redistribute aggregated census counts to improve the accuracy of national-scale gridded population data. In East Africa, such analyses have been done using regional land cover data, thus restricting application of the approach to this region. If gridded population data are to be improved across Africa, an alternative, consistent and comparable source of land cover data is required. Here these analyses were repeated for Kenya using four continent-wide land cover datasets combined with detailed settlement extents and accurac

SUBMITTER: Linard C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3617592 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature