#degurba — Public Fediverse posts

Where do populations live and how is it changing? 🌍 Explore WorldPop’s new open, high-resolution global population & urbanisation datasets. 📊 Data for impact.

Learn more: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/mapping-people-places-and-change-exploring-worldpops-latest-global-data-releases/

#OpenData #GIS #PopulationData #Geospatial #DataForDevelopment #Urbanisation #Global2 #DEGURBA

🏙️What is a city? The answer changes with the data.

New research shows maps can disagree on what’s urban or rural depending on the population grid underneath.

🔗Read and listen: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/degurba-why-your-urban-definition-depends-on-your-data/

#DEGURBA #Planning #DataForDevelopment

See your world in a new way 🌍✨
Discover how the Degree of Urbanisation lets you map cities, towns & rural areas with accuracy. Your local knowledge brings it to life.
Watch now ▶️https://youtu.be/2fifteIbo2c
Subtitled: French, Spanish & Italian
#DEGURBA #SDGs #UrbanPlanning #DataForDevelopment #GIS #UNStats

Urban - or rural? The answer matters more than you may think. 🏙️🌾
Countries are learning to map it better than ever.
🚀📊 Our DEGURBA training is building skills that power smarter policies - now and for the future.

Read more: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/skills-for-smarter-planning-how-degurba-capacity-building-is-empowering-countries/

#LMICs #DEGURBA #CapacityBuilding #GeospatialData #Urbanisation #DataForDevelopment #SDGs #NationalStatistics #Cameroon #Zambia

🚨 Editor's Choice in Remote Sensing Journal - our paper:

Exploring the Relationship between Temporal Fluctuations in Satellite Nightlight Imagery and Human Mobility across #Africa

#mobiledata #nighttimelights #Degurba #Rural #Mobility

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/editors_choice?listby=date&page_no=2&page_count=45&view=default