WorldPop Asia dataset details
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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 an additional version remaining unadjusted (modelled solely on census and covariate data).
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 - LKA_ppp_v2b_2010_UNadj.tif = Sri Lanka (LKA) population per pixel (ppp), mapped using WorldPOP modelling version 2b (v2b) for 2010 (2010) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj).
DATE OF PRODUCTION: July 2015

Also included in download: (i) Population datasets produced using original census year data (2012), (ii) Metadata html file, (iii) Google Earth .kmz file

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Region : Sri Lanka

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DOI : 10.5258/SOTON/WP00251

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Date of production : 2015-05-05

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Recommended citation

WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2015. Sri Lanka 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 an additional version remaining unadjusted (modelled solely on census and covariate data). DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00251

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Html file : view Metadata page

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Data Files :