Lina Maria Sanchez-Cespedes, Douglas Ryan Leasure, Natalia Tejedor-Garavito, Glenn Harry Amaya Cruz, Gustavo Adolfo Garcia Velez, Andryu Enrique Mendoza, Yenny Andrea Marín Salazar, Thomas Esch, Andrew J Tatem, Mariana Ospina Bohórquez
Effective government services rely on accurate population numbers to allocate resources. In Colombia and globally, census enumeration is challenging in remote regions and where armed conflict is occurring. During census preparations, the Colombian National Administrative Department of Statistics conducted social cartography workshops, where community representatives estimated numbers of dwellings and people throughout their regions. We repurposed this information, combining it with remotely sensed buildings data and other geospatial data...
March 28, 2023: Population Studies