Remotely measuring populations during a crisis by overlaying two data sources

International Health

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 90-98

  Bharti, Nita ^a,i   Lu, Xin ^b,c,d,e   Bengtsson, Linus ^c,d   Wetter, Erik ^c,f   Tatem, Andrew J ^c,g,h  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c FLOWMINDER FOUNDATION   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^f STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis; Mobile phones; Movement; Population density; Satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; LIBERIA; MOBILE PHONE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE CAMP; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA; WAR; ALTRUISM; COTE D'IVOIRE; EMERGENCY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIGHT; PROCEDURES; REFUGEE; REMOTE SENSING; WARFARE;

ALTRUISM; CELL PHONES; COMMUNICATION; COTE D'IVOIRE; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; LIGHT; POPULATION DENSITY; REFUGEES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WARFARE;

EID: 84924452766     PISSN: 18763413     EISSN: 18763405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/inthealth/ihv003     Document Type: Article

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