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I'm not fond of this title but did find the article to be intriguing. I didn't see a paper or anything linked, so at the moment it remains a superficial interv
by brailsafe 8y ago
I'm not fond of this title but did find the article to be intriguing.
I didn't see a paper or anything linked, so at the moment it remains a superficial interview. I'd like to know more about which remote sensing techniques they're using and how they're classifying population. Like the dissenter in the article, I wonder about informal settlements which can sometimes make up the majority of an urban centre. Do their models include these? The implication seems to be no, but there isn't much to go on.
- SiempreViernes 8y agoHere the author being interviewed gives a short summary of the project: https://unhabitat.org/the-tale-of-broadville-and-narrowtown-why-we-need-a-global-people-based-definition-of-cities-and-settlements-lewis-dijkstra/ https://unhabitat.org/the-tale-of-broadville-and-narrowtown-... Details in the method can be found in a 2016 report about the "Atlas of the human planet" project, where they produced something called the "Global Human Settlement Layer" (there are a lot of plots labelled GHSL in the talk linked above). Starts at page 22, infographic at page 26: https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Atlas_2016.pdf?t=1476360675 https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Atlas_2016.pdf?t=147...
- brailsafe 8y agoSuper valuable, thanks.