High resolution population estimates from telecommunications data

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-13

  Douglass, Rex W ^a,b   Meyer, David A ^a,b   Ram, Megha ^b   Rideout, David ^a   Song, Dongjin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell phone network; Gravity model; Scale invariance

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; HEALTH RISKS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RISK ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; URBAN GROWTH;

CELL PHONE; EXPLICIT CONNECTIONS; GRAVITY MODEL; POPULATION ESTIMATE; SCALE INVARIANCE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS DATUM; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84933527134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-015-0040-6     Document Type: Article

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