README.md

urbanareas

installation

devtools::install_github("tbuckl/urbanareas")

Named Global Urban Areas and Population

Named urban areas. Area data derived from satellite imagery (NASA/MODIS). Place names from Washington Post/NaturalEarthData. Population estimates from Landscan

Format

A simple features data frame with five variables: name, allnames, namecount, area_sqkm, pop_max and pop_min, wikidataids, and geometry.

Details

Area Source: Schneider, A., M. A. Friedl, D. K. McIver, and C. E. Woodcock (2003) Mapping urban areas by fusing multiple sources of coarse resolution remotely sensed data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, volume 69, pages 1377-1386.



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