[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the accuracy of gridded population estimates in slums: a case study in Nigeria and Kenya

DR Thomson, AE Gaughan, FR Stevens, G Yetman… - Urban Science, 2021 - mdpi.com
Low-and middle-income country cities face unprecedented urbanization and growth in
slums. Gridded population data (eg,~ 100× 100 m) derived from demographic and spatial …

Improving the accuracy of gridded population estimates in cities and slums to monitor SDG 11: Evidence from a simulation study in Namibia

DR Thomson, FR Stevens, R Chen, G Yetman… - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
People living in slums and other deprived areas in low-and middle-income country (LMIC)
cities are under-represented in censuses, and subsequently in" top-down" census-derived …

Do we underestimate the global slum population?

M Kuffer, C Persello, K Pfeffer… - 2019 Joint Urban …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
According to UN-Habitat, around one billion people live in slum conditions, this number is
reported for the SDG indicator 11.1. 1 (the proportion of urban population living in slums …

[HTML][HTML] The missing millions in maps: exploring causes of uncertainties in global gridded population datasets

M Kuffer, M Owusu, L Oliveira, R Sliuzas… - … International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Gridded population datasets model the population at a relatively high spatial and temporal
granularity by reallocating official population data from irregular administrative units to …

[HTML][HTML] How accurate are WorldPop-Global-Unconstrained gridded population data at the cell-level?: A simulation analysis in urban Namibia

DR Thomson, DR Leasure, T Bird, N Tzavidis… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Disaggregated population counts are needed to calculate health, economic, and
development indicators in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), especially in settings …

[HTML][HTML] Gridded population maps informed by different built settlement products

FJ Reed, AE Gaughan, FR Stevens, G Yetman… - Data, 2018 - mdpi.com
The spatial distribution of humans on the earth is critical knowledge that informs many
disciplines and is available in a spatially explicit manner through gridded population …

[HTML][HTML] Validity and feasibility of a satellite imagery-based method for rapid estimation of displaced populations

F Checchi, BT Stewart, JJ Palmer, C Grundy - International journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Background Estimating the size of forcibly displaced populations is key to documenting their
plight and allocating sufficient resources to their assistance, but is often not done …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data

R MacTavish, H Bixby, A Cavanaugh… - World …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Identifying urban deprived areas, including slums, can facilitate more targeted
planning and development policies in cities to reduce socio-economic and health inequities …

Evaluation of gridded population models using 2001 Northern Ireland Census data

D Martin, C Lloyd, I Shuttleworth - Environment and Planning …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
There is growing interest in the use of gridded population models which potentially offer
advantages of stability through time and ease of integration with nonpopulation data …

Variability in urban population distributions across Africa

C Tuholske, K Caylor, T Evans… - Environmental Research …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Africa is projected to add one billion urban residents by 2050. Yet developing sustainable
solutions to tackle the host of challenges posed by rapid urban population growth is stymied …