WorldPop Asia dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2020 estimates of numbers of people per pixel (ppp) and people per hectare (pph), with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and remaining unadjusted.
REGION: Asia
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 - VNM_ppp_v2b_2010_UNadj.tif = Vietnam (VNM) population per pixel (ppp) map for 2010 (popmap10) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj), version 2b (v2b)
DATE OF PRODUCTION: September 2014
Also included: (i) Metadata html file, (ii) Google Earth file, (iii) Population datasets produced using original census year data
Region : Thailand
DOI : 10.5258/SOTON/WP00267
Date of production : 2014-05-05
Recommended citation
WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2014. Thailand 100m Population. Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2020 estimates of numbers of people per pixel (ppp) and people per hectare (pph), with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and remaining unadjusted. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00267
Html file : view Metadata page
Data Files :
WorldPop datasets derived from OpenStreetMap, Microsoft Building Footprints or Microsoft Roads Detection are available under the Open Database License (ODbL). This means you are free to share the data, provided attribution is included (appropriate credit and a link to the license). If you alter or build upon the data, you may distribute the result only under the same ODbL license.