Practical approaches to spatial estimation of disasteraffected populations

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 31-48

  Jordan, Lisa ^a   Watkins, Benjamin ^b   Biegon, Patrick ^b   Rose, Rob ^b   Mwangi, Margaret ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kimetrica Limited   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Disaster Response and Management; Disasters; GIS; Population Estimation; Spatial Population Estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864558969     PISSN: 19479654     EISSN: 19479662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jagr.2010070103     Document Type: Article

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