Disaggregating census data for population mapping using Random forests with remotely-sensed and ancillary data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Stevens, Forrest R ^a   Gaughan, Andrea E ^a   Linard, Catherine ^b,c   Tatem, Andrew J ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AFRICA; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUTOMATION; BUFFERED POLYGON; CAMBODIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DASYMETRIC REDISTRIBUTION; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KENYA; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MAPPING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; RANDOM FOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VIET NAM; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAMBODIA; CENSUSES; DATASETS AS TOPIC; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KENYA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VIETNAM;

EID: 84923279600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107042     Document Type: Article

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