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Population projection code.
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Use MODIS instead of GRUMP for urban extents #18

Closed crstn closed 7 years ago

crstn commented 7 years ago

This could be a much better data source, because it is based on hi-res remote sensing data: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/dataset_discovery/modis/modis_products_table/mcd12q1

There's a class called Urban and built-up that we would use.

Con: Makes the computation slower because the resolution is higher. We might want to consider downscaling this before we use it, otherwise we would have to make all the computations at the higher resolutions (→ 🐌 )

crstn commented 7 years ago

Using ESA GlobCover for now. There seems to be no global dataset with pre-classified MODIS data available at this point.