Census-independent population mapping in northern Nigeria
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Census-independent population mapping in northern Nigeria☆
Although remote sensing has long been used to aid in the estimation of population, it has usually been in the context of spatial disaggregation of national census data, with the census counts serving both as observational data for specifying models and as constraints on model outputs. Here we present a framework for estimating populations from the bottom up, entirely independently of national c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Remote Sensing of Environment
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0034-4257
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.09.024