Rwanda Gridded Population Dataset

The methods developed for Haiti were refined for Pakistan, where a similar correlation was found between built-up areas and 1998 census data. The 100-meter gridded population map was made available to the public during summer 2010’s severe flooding via a viewer and a data download page. The methods used in the Pakistan project are described in a paper published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment.

No description yet.

No description yet.

The Census Bureau mapped South Sudan, a country with a substantial rural population. Satellite imagery was combined with 2008 census data and 2017 population estimates to produce gridded population layers.

Haiti was chosen as the pilot country for developing our population mapping methods, based on its high frequency of hurricanes and other natural disasters in the recent past. We found a clear correlation between built-up area density derived from interpretation of high- and medium-resolution satellite imagery and data from the 2003 national census. The resulting 100-meter gridded population map is the finest-scale demographic map of the country ever produced. It was made available to the public the day after the devastating earthquake of January 2010, and has been used extensively for disaster relief. The methods used in the Haiti project are described in a paper published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing.

The Census Bureau mapped the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. A variety of spatial datasets were combined with census data and estimates to produce gridded population layers.