Documentation
Various forms of documentation for LandScan (multiple versions) can be found through the links below.
- LandScan Global Population 1998 Database Documentation, with updates for currently-released LandScan data.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- LandScan 2007 Metadata (htm)
- LandScan 2007 ReadMe
- LandScan 2006 Metadata (XML)
- 2006 ReadMe
- LandScan 2005: Enhanced Population Distribution for the United States
- Bhaduri, Budhendra, Edward Bright, Phillip Coleman, and Jerome Dobson, April 2002. LandScan: Locating People is What Matters. Geoinformatics Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 34-37.
- Dobson, J. E., E. A. Bright, P. R. Coleman, R.C. Durfee, B. A. Worley. 2000. "LandScan: A Global Population Database for Estimating Populations at Risk," Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing Vol. 66, No. 7, July 2000, pp. 849-857. (www.asprs.org)
- Landscan Registration and Data Access Process
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