REFERENCES

Sources and notes

Document references

Balk, D. & Yetman, G. 2004. The Global Distribution of Population: Evaluating the Gains in Resolution Refinement. Documentation for GPW Version 3 available only at http://beta.sedac.ciesin. columbia. edu/gpw/docs/gpw3_documentation_final.pdf.

Balk, D., Pozzi F., Yetman, G., Deichmann, U. & Nelson, A. 2004a. The distribution of people and the dimension of place: methodologies to improve the global estimation of urban extents. Working Paper, CIESIN, Columbia University. Palisades, NY.
Documentation for GRUMP also available at http://beta.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/docs/UR_paper_webdraft1 .pdf.

Clark, J.I. & Rhind, D.W. 1992. Population Data and Global Environmental Change. Paris, IISC/UNESCO.

Danko, D.M. 1992. The Digital Chart of the World project. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 58:1125–1128.

Deichmann, U. 1996. A review of spatial population database design and modeling. Technical Report TR-96-3, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Santa Barbara.

Deichmann, U. 1996a. Asia medium resolution population database documentation. Database documentation and digital database prepared in collaboration with UNEP/GRID Geneva for the UNEP/CGIAR Initiative on Use of GIS in Agricultural Research, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara, (available also at http://www.na.unep.net/globalpop/asia/index.php3).

Deichmann, U., Balk, D. & Yetman, G. 2001. Transforming population data for interdisciplinary usages: from census to grid. Documentation for GPW Version 2 available only at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/plue/gpw/GPW documentation.pdf.

Dobson, J.E., Bright, E.A., Coleman, P.R., Durfee, R.C. & Worley, B. A. 2000. LandScan: a global population database for estimating populations at risk. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 66(7): 849–857.

Doll, C.N.H., Muller, J.P. & Elvidge, C.D. 2000. Nighttime imagery as a tool for global mapping of socio-economic parameters and greenhouse gas emissions. Ambio, 29(3): 157–162.

Dooley, J.F. 2005. An inventory and comparison of globally consistent GIS databases and libraries. Environment and Natural Resources Series No 19, FAO - Rome.

Elvidge, C.D., Baugh, K.E., Kihn, E.A., Kroehl, H.W. & Davis, E.R. 1997a. Mapping city lights with nighttime data from the DMSP Operational Linescan System. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 63(6): 727–734.

Elvidge, C.D., Baugh, K.E., Kihn, E.A., Kroehl, H.W. & Davis, E.R. 1997b. Relation between satellite observed visible-near infrared emission, population, economic activity and electric power consumption. Int. Journal of Remote Sensing, 18(6): 1373–1379.

Elvidge, C.D., Baugh, K.E., Dietz, J.B., Sutton, P.C. & Kroehl, H.W. 1999. Radiance calibration of DMSP-OLS low light imaging data of human settlements. Remote Sensing of Environment, 68:77–88.

Elvidge, C.D., Imhoff, M.L., Baugh, K.E., Hobson, V.R., Nelson, I., Safran, J., Dietz, J.B. & Tuttle, B.T. 2001. Nighttime Lights of the World: 1994–1995. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 56: 81–99.

Elvidge, C.D., Safran, J., Nelson, I.L., Tuttle, B.T., Hobson, V.R., Baugh, K.E., Dietz, J.B. & Erwin, E.H. 2004. Area and position accuracy of DMSP night-time lights data. Chapter 20 in Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment. Eds. R.S. Lunetta and J.G. Lyon, CRC Press, pp. 281–292.

Fekete, B. M., C. J. Vorosmarty, and R. B. Lammers. 2001. Scaling gridded river networks for macroscale hydrology: Development, analysis and control of error. Water Resources Research, 3(77): 1955–1967.

Fischer, G., van Velthuizen, H., Shah, M. & Nachtergaele, F.O. 2002. Global agro-ecological assessment for agriculture in the 21st century: methodology and results. IIASA and FAO, Publication RR-02-02.

FAO. 2003. Compendium of agricultural environmental indicators 1989–1991 to 2000. Statistics Analysis Service, Statistics Division, Rome.

Henninger, N. & Snel, M. 2002. Where are the poor? Experiences with the development and use of poverty maps. WRI and UNEP/GRID-Arendal.

Huddleston, B., Ataman, E., Salvatore, M. & Bloise, M. 2005. A geospatial information framework for analysis of poverty and environment links. Environment and Natural Resources Series, FAO - Rome (forthcoming).

Hyman, G., Nelson, A., Lema, G., Fosnight, G., Singh, A. & Deichmann, U. 2000. Latin America and Caribbean Population Database Documentation (available only at http://www.na.unep.net/globalpop/lac/intro.html).

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Lee, T. F., Miller, S. D., Turk, F. J., Schueler, C., Julian, R., Elvidge, C., Deyo, S., Dills, P. & Wang, S. 2004. The Day/Night Visible Sensor aboard NPOESS VIIRS, Proc. of the 13th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 1.8, American Meteorological Society, Norfolk, VA.

McGrahanan, G., Marcotullio, P., Bai, X., Balk, D., Braga, T., Douglas, I., Elmqvist, T., Rees, W., Satterthwaite, D., Songsore, J. & Zlotnik, H. 2005. Urban Systems. Chapter 22 in Conditions and Trends Assessment of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Forthcoming in October 2005.

Nelson, A. 2004. African population database documentation (available only at http://www.na.unep.net/globalpop/africa/Africa_index.html)

Pozzi, F., Small, C. & Yetman, G. 2003. Modeling the distribution of human population with nighttime satellite imagery and gridded population of the world. Earth Observation Magazine, 12 (4): 24–30.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). 2004. Documentation of LandScan Global Population 1998 Database and further releases 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 (available only at http://www.ornl.gov/sci/gist/landscan/landscanCommon/landscan_doc.html).

Schneider, A., Friedl, M.A., McIver, D.K. & Woodcock, C.E. 2003. Mapping urban areas by fusing multiple sources of coarse resolution remotely sensed data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 69 (12) :1377–1386.

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Sutton, P. 1997. Modeling population density with night-time satellite imagery and GIS. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 21(¾): 227–244.

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Web site references

1.  United Nations Population Division
World Population Prospect: The 2004 Revision Population Database
(available at http://esa.un.org/unpp/)

2.  U.S. Census Bureau's International Program Center
Statistical demographic and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
(available at www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html)

3.  World Gazetteer
(available at www.world-gazetteer.com/)

4.  City Population
(available at www.citypopulation.de)

5.  Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
Digital Chart of the World (DCW)
(available at www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/)

6.  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Vector Smart Map level 0
(available at http://earth-info.nga.mil/publications/vmap0.html)

7.  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Vector Smart Map level 1
(available at www.mapability.com/info/vmap1_index.html)

8.  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
GEONet Names Server (GNS) (formerly NIMA points database)
(available at http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html)

9.  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Database of Nighttime Lights of the World
(available at http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/html/download_world_change_pair.html)

10. Global Land Cover Characteristics (GLCC) dataset
(available at http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/glcc/glcc.asp)

11. Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit (GVM). 2004
Global Land Cover 2000 database (GLC2000)
(available at www-gvm.jrc.it/glc2000/)

12. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MOderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
(available at http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/)

13. Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Gridded Population of the World version 3 (GPW v3) dataset;
Future Estimates 2015 dataset;
Data products developed under the Global Urban-Rural Mapping Project (GRUMP).
(Downloaded in April 2005)
(available at http://beta.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/global.jps)

14. EuroGeographics
Seamless Administrative Boundaries of Europe
(available at www.eurogeographics.org/eng/04_sabe.asp)

15. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
LandScan Global Population Database, 2002
(Downloaded in March 2003)
(available at www.ornl.gov/sci/gist/landscan/landscan2002/index.html)

16. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Global Resource Information Database (available at http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/)

17. Boston University's Department of Geography
Urbanization as a component of global change: a global map of urban areas
(available at http://duckwater.bu.edu/urban/modis_map.html)

18. United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
World Water Development Report II
Indicators for World Water Assessment Programme
(available at http://wwdrii.sr.unh.edu/index.html)

19. Poverty Mapping Project
(available at http://povertymap.net)

20. UN Geographic Information Working Group (DPKO/UNCS)
International Boundaries dataset
(Downloaded March 2004)
(available at http://boundaries.ungiwg.org/ for members of the UN system)