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AsiaPop (www.asiapop.org) dataset details_______________________DATASET: Alpha version 2010 and 2015 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and remaining unadjusted.REGION: AsiaSPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84UNITS: Estimated persons per grid squareMAPPING APPROACH: Land cover based, as described 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 - VNM_popmap10adj_v2.tif = Vietnam (VNM) population count map for 2010 (popmap10) adjusted to match UN national estimates (adj), version 2 (v2).DATE OF PRODUCTION: January 2013Dataset 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
WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2013. Timor-Leste 100m Population. Alpha version 2010 and 2015 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and remaining unadjusted. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00270