Towards a name for each town
Obviously, each town has a name. But in a system of grid-based urban/rural classifications, towns are defined as clusters of 1 km² grid cells. These grid-based towns do not have any a-priori name. Still, providing names to these units can be useful to facilitate...Read articleRoad transport performance in Europe: a new set of indicators
A new working paper describes an indicator framework highlighting road transport performance in Europe’s regions and territories. By combining a comprehensive road network with 1 km² gridded population data it compares the accessibility to population within...Read articleNew Global Human Settlement Layer website and report
The Global Human Settlement Layer project of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has a new website: http://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ It features the “Atlas of the Human Planet”, presenting the key findings of the analysis of the Global Human...Read articleHaiti and Pakistan: Population grids
The project aims to develop methods for creating high-res gridded population maps, based on a combination of census data and satellite image analysis.
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A paper on a dasymetric binary method to construct a population density grid for Spain is published. Binary means less errors, the authors argue.
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