ISSN #
1525-4011
Volume Number
22
Issue Number
1
First Page
37
Last Page
40
Subject Area
Library science
Description
Originally conceived for use by U.S. military and intelligence communities,
the LandScan web application and population datasets, produced
by East View Geospatial with data from Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, are useful for various reasons including: spatial data analysis,
humanitarian aid and relief, disease modeling, market growth,
and sustainable development/environmental protection. Older datasets,
back to 2000, are archived as new versions are made available.
There are three main audiences of LandScan: researchers who download
and use the datasets; researchers who use the WMS and WCS
services; and those who use the web platform. This review focuses
mainly on the web app.
Search functionalities include the ability to drill down to the pixel
level, i.e., one square kilometer grid units; to quickly get population
counts for an area on the world map by pointing and clicking; and to
get population counts for an area using the polygon drawing function.
Publication Date
7-2020
Type
Article
