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Kenya 100m Population

Domain:

geospatialsocioeconomic

Record type:

dataset
Creator:
Wor
Publisher:
University of Southampton
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DATASET: Alpha version 2010 and 2015 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (esa.un.org) and remaining unadjusted. REGION: Africa SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator) PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84 UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square MAPPING APPROACH: Random Forest FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org) FILENAMES: Example - AGO_popmap10adj_v2b.tif = Angola (AGO) population count map for 2010 (10) adjusted to match UN national estimates (adj), version 2b (v2b). Population maps are updated to new versions when improved census or other input data become available. DATE OF PRODUCTION: July 2013 Also included: (i) Metadata html file, (ii) Google Earth file