LandScan HD Iraq Full Details

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Title:

LandScan HD Iraq

Description:

This dataset includes GeoTIFFs representing the estimated population of Iraq. LandScan HD is developed for individual countries around the world and provides gridded population estimates at 3 arc-second resolution. The LandScan HD model incorporates current land use and infrastructure data from a variety of sources, applies facility occupancy estimates from ORNL's Population Density Tables (PDT) project, and leverages novel image processing algorithms developed at ORNL to rapidly map building structures and neighborhood areas using high-performance computing environments. In this way, LandScan HD is developed using a 'bottom-up' approach where high resolution population estimates are not dependent on a recently conducted, high quality census. This approach is particularly useful for parts of the world that regularly experience large changes in population distribution due to rapid growth, natural hazards, or conflict.

Creator:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and United States. Department of Defense

Provider:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Population

Theme:

Society

Temporal Coverage:

2019-12-10

Date Issued:

2022-02-02

Place:

Iraq

Rights:

These datasets are offered under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Users are free to use, copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the data for commercial and non-commercial purposes, without restriction, as long as clear attribution of the source is provided.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF

Language:

English

Date Added:

2024-12-30