The AfriPop Project

AfriPop

Logo of the AfriPop Project
Abbreviation AfriPop
Formation 2009-07-01
Type International Organization
Purpose Producing detailed and freely-available population distribution maps for the whole of Africa.
Headquarters Gainesville, Florida
Location
Region served
 Global
Official language
 English
Coordinator
 Dr. Andrew J Tatem
Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida
Website http://www.afripop.org/

The AfriPop Project, is a non-profit project primarily funded by the Fondation Philippe Wiener - Maurice Anspach, Belgium. AfriPop represents a collaboration between the University of Florida, USA, the University of Brussels, Belgium and the Malaria Public Health & Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, Kenya.

The AfriPop alpha version population distribution dataset.

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. The AfriPop project was initiated in July 2009 with an aim of producing detailed and freely-available population distribution maps for the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

The AfriPop team have assembled a unique spatial database of linked information on contemporary census data across Africa, satellite-imagery derived settlement maps and land cover information. Novel approaches to extracting detailed spatial data on settlements from satellite imagery [1] have been combined with contemporary detailed census data and land cover to map population densities across sub-Saharan Africa at unprecedented levels of detail.[2][3] The resultant maps are freely available from the project website.

See also

Africa, World Population, Malaria Atlas Project

References

  1. ↑ Tatem AJ, Noor AM, Hay SI (2004). "Defining approaches to settlement mapping for public health management in Kenya using medium spatial resolution satellite imagery". Remote Sensing of Environment 93: 42–52. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2004.06.014.
  2. ↑ Linard C, Alegana, VA, Noor AM, Snow RW, Tatem AJ (2010). "A high resolution spatial population database of Somalia for disease risk mapping". International Journal of Health Geographics 9: 45. doi:10.1186/1476-072x-9-45.
  3. ↑ Tatem AJ, Noor AM, von Hagen C, Di Gregorio A, Hay SI (2007). "High resolution settlement and population maps for low income nations: combining land cover and national census in East Africa". PLoS ONE 2: e1298. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001298.

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