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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s LandScan sets the community standard for global population distribution data. Researchers routinely use the high-resolution database, which won a 2019 Excellence in Technology Transfer award and a 2006 R&D Top 100 award, to estimate populations at risk and to plan, aid, and direct disaster recovery efforts in the wake of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and other such events.