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POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 460-473Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-010-0108-y
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Population density; Dasymetric mapping; Downscaling; CORINE Land Cover (CLC); Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS)
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This paper describes four methods used to produce dasymetric population density grids combining population data per commune with CORINE Land Cover, a map available for all countries of the European Union. An accuracy assessment has been carried out for five countries for which a very reliable 1-km population density grid exists; the improvement, compared with the choropleth map per commune, ranges between 20% for the weakest result in Finland and 62% for the best result in the Netherlands. The best results are obtained with a method using logit regression to integrate information from the point survey LUCAS (Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey); however, performance differences between methods are moderate. The dasymetric grid is distributed free of charge by the European Environment Agency, for non-commercial use.
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