Urban Science Days 1: WorldPop and Flowminder Mapping spatial population demographics and dynamic
Event details
| Date | 01.04.2015 |
| Hour | 15:15 › 17:00 |
| Speaker |
Prof. Andrew Tatem University of Southampton |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Framework: Under the ENAC Incentive Program of Urban Dimension / Exploration in Urban Scaling Project, a series of workshops and lectures toward a scientific view of global urbanization and the built environment.
Abstract: high resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions are a prerequisite for the accurate measurement of the impacts of population growth, for monitoring changes and for planning interventions. While a wealth of data on these factors are now available for high income regions of the world, there still remain many gaps in low income regions, with data on urbanization, population distributions and population mobility often outdated, coarse resolution or lacking. The WorldPop project (www.worldpop.org) works together with national health ministries, statistical offices and international agencies to fill these gaps and produce high resolution contemporary estimates of population distributions and demographics through the integration of satellite, census, survey and other spatial data. Further, through the Flowminder Foundation (www.flowminder.org), recent work has focussed on the potential for mobile phone data to improve further these estimates and better quantify population density dynamics and movements.
Abstract: high resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions are a prerequisite for the accurate measurement of the impacts of population growth, for monitoring changes and for planning interventions. While a wealth of data on these factors are now available for high income regions of the world, there still remain many gaps in low income regions, with data on urbanization, population distributions and population mobility often outdated, coarse resolution or lacking. The WorldPop project (www.worldpop.org) works together with national health ministries, statistical offices and international agencies to fill these gaps and produce high resolution contemporary estimates of population distributions and demographics through the integration of satellite, census, survey and other spatial data. Further, through the Flowminder Foundation (www.flowminder.org), recent work has focussed on the potential for mobile phone data to improve further these estimates and better quantify population density dynamics and movements.
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- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Strano, Cavalleri, Giometto, Bertuzzo, Zaoli, Bercelloni Corte, Cogato Lanza, Viganò, Golay, Rinaldo.