Taking Advantage of the Improved Availability of Census Data: A First Look at the Gridded Population of the World, Version 4

Papers in Applied Geography

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 226-234

  Doxsey Whitfield, Erin ^a   MacManus, Kytt ^a   Adamo, Susana B ^a   Pistolesi, Linda ^a   Squires, John ^a   Borkovska, Olena ^a   Baptista, Sandra R ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

census geography; GPWv4; gridded population; uniform distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975480949     PISSN: 23754931     EISSN: 2375494X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23754931.2015.1014272     Document Type: Article

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