Map** the distribution, pattern, and composition of urban land use categories plays a
valuable role in understanding urban environmental dynamics and facilitating sustainable …

More than 80% of the global population is at risk of a vector-borne disease, with mosquito-
borne diseases being the largest contributor to human vector-borne disease burden …

The movements of individuals within and among cities influence critical aspects of our
society, such as well-being, the spreading of epidemics, and the quality of the environment …

Many critical policy decisions, from strategic investments to the allocation of humanitarian
aid, rely on data about the geographic distribution of wealth and poverty. Yet many poverty …

The study of human mobility is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society,
such as disease spreading, urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. The …

Wastewater is a complex matrix containing a wide range of chemical and biological markers
of human activity. Relating concentrations of these “waste” materials in wastewater influent …

Population data represent an essential component in studies focusing on human–nature
interrelationships, disaster risk assessment and environmental health. Several recent efforts …

High resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions, their characteristics
and changes over time are a prerequisite for the accurate measurement of the impacts of …

Spatially explicit population grid can play an important role in climate change, resource
management, sustainable development and other fields. Several gridded datasets already …

Abstract The Data Big Bang that the development of the ICTs has raised is providing us with
a stream of fresh and digitized data related to how people, companies and other …