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Input Layers for Global Gridded Data Sets

 

Input Variables

Dataset

Population

Roads

Land Cover

Built structures

Cities or Urban areas

Night-time lights

Infrastructure

Environmental data (climate, topography, elevation)

Protected areas

Water bodies

Gridded Population of the World (GPW)

x

              

x*

x

Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)

x

      

x

x

    

x*

x

LandScan Global Population database

x

x

x

x

x

  

x

x

x

x

Global Human Settlement Layer – Population (GHS-POP)

x

    

x

            

World Population Estimate

x

x

x

  

x

        

x

WorldPop

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

* Protected areas are not masked in GPW and GRUMP, but the census bureaus often define the protected areas as no data or 0 (zero), regardless of whether people live in them.