• DocumentCode
    3690497
  • Title

    Combining GHSL and GPW to improve global population mapping

  • Author

    Sergio Freire;Thomas Kemper;Martino Pesaresi;Aneta Florczyk;Vasileios Syrris

  • Author_Institution
    European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), Global Security and Crisis Management Unit. Via Enrico Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2541
  • Lastpage
    2543
  • Abstract
    Available global population grids suffer from limitations that constrain their usability. The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) may benefit population disaggregation and mapping. We test the integration of the GHSL built-up grid and the Gridded Population of the World (GPW) in order to refine the mapping of population distribution in Syria, for the year 2000, greatly improving depiction of population distribution and density. Preliminary results indicate that GHSL is a good proxy for population disaggregation.
  • Keywords
    "Sociology","Statistics","Security","Usability","Indexes","Urban areas","Production"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015 IEEE International
  • ISSN
    2153-6996
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2153-7003
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326329
  • Filename
    7326329
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3690497