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Distribution of urban population throughout the globe. "Hot Spots" of very high populations can be readily seen in and around big cities and metropolitan areas. Global urban population fields were constructed using country-level demographic statistics from the World Resources Institute Earth Trends database. Urban population dataset was developed by spatially distributing country level population data among DMSP-OLD nighttime stable lights imagery (Elvidge 1997a) and ESRI digital chart of the World populated places points (ESRI 1993). Country level urban population was evenly distributed among the DMSP-OLS at 1-km grid cell resolution with detectable lights in at least 10% of the cloud free observations (Elvidge...
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