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Lao People's Democratic Republic 100m. Urban change
Lao Peoples Democratic Republic 100m Urban change

AsiaPop (www.asiapop.org) urban change dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2000 and 2010 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and MODIS-derived urban extent change built in.
REGION: Asia
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Land cover based, as described on the website and in: Gaughan AE, Stevens FR, Linard C, Jia P and Tatem AJ, 2013, High resolution population distribution maps for Southeast Asia in 2010 and 2015, PLoS ONE, 8(2): e55882
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example - VNM00urbchg.tif = Vietnam (VNM) population count map for 2000 (00) adjusted to match UN national estimates and incorporating urban extent and urban population estimates for 2000.
DATE OF PRODUCTION: July 2013

Dataset construction details and input data are provided here: www.asiapop.org and here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0055882

Region : Lao People's Democratic Republic
DOI : 10.5258/SOTON/WP00136
Date of production : 2013-05-05
Recommended citation

WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2013. Lao Peoples Democratic Republic 100m Urban change. Alpha version 2000 and 2010 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and MODIS-derived urban extent change built in. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00136

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