The effects of quality control on decreasing error propagation in the LandScan USA population distribution model: A case study of Philadelphia County

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 215-228

  Patterson, Lauren ^a   Urban, Marie ^b   Myers, Aaron ^b   Bhaduri, Budhendra ^b   Bright, Eddie ^b   Coleman, Phillip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integrity; LandScan USA; Population distribution model; Quality control

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CASE-STUDIES; CONTROL EFFORT; DATA INTEGRITY; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; ERROR PROPAGATION; LANDSCAN USA; MODEL OUTPUTS; MULTIPLE INPUTS; PHILADELPHIA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION MODEL;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GIS; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY CONTROL;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65449127333     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2009.01148.x     Document Type: Article

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