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WorldPop Asia dataset details_______________________DATASET: Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2010 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, Middle EastSPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84UNITS: Estimated persons per grid squareMAPPING APPROACH: Random ForestFORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)FILENAMES: Example - OMN_ppp_v2b_2010_UNadj.tif = Oman (OMN) population per pixel (ppp) map for 2010, modelling version 2b (v2b), adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj).DATE OF PRODUCTION: Aug 2015Also included: (i) Metadata html file, (ii) Population dataset for 2013 respresents the raw input population data (i.e. 2013 estimates, based on the 2010 census)
WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2015. Oman 100m Population. Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2010 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/WP00203