WorldPop Asia dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2020 estimates of numbers of people per pixel ('ppp') and people per hectare ('pph'), with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and remaining unadjusted.
REGION: Asia
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Random Forest
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example - CHN_ppp_v2b_2010_UNadj.tif = China (CHN) population per pixel (ppp) map for 2010 (2010) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj), version 2c (v2c).
DATE OF PRODUCTION: July 2015 

NOTE: The metadata and Google Earth files are in preparation.