Estimating population size using spatial analysis methods

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue , 2007, Pages 271-287

  Pinto, A ^a   Brown, V ^b   Chan, K W ^c   Chavez, I F ^d   Chupraphawan, S ^e   Grais, R F ^b   Lai, P C ^c   Mak, S H ^c   Rigby, J E ^e   Singhasivanon, P ^d  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b EPICENTRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crisis; Field survey; GIS; Population estimation; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

ANALYSIS METHOD; CRISIS; ESTIMATION METHODS; FIELD SURVEYS; FIELD TRIAL; INTERPOLATION METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATIONS; POPULATION SIZES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 84873476837     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71318-0_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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