How Many People Are At That Place?: Modeling and Applying the High-resolution Gridded Population Surface in Alachua County, Florida

Peng Jia

ISBN 10: 3659295981 / ISBN 13: 9783659295980

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

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64 pages. 8.66x5.91x0.15 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Many People Are At That Place?: Modeling and Applying the High-resolution Gridded Population Surface in Alachua County, Florida
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659295981
• ISBN 13: 9783659295980
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.15 kilograms

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Synopsis

Spatial techniques have been more often used to meet the demand for small-scale demographic products in recent years, which make the dasymetric mapping become possible and easy to operate. In this book, we adopted the Heuristic Sampling Method (HSM) and selected the data of property types of parcels in 2010 as ancillary data, to disaggregate the population counts from U.S. Census 2010 onto a quadrilateral grid composed of 30m×30m cells in Alachua County, Florida, named High-resolution Gridded Population Surface (HGPS). Additionally, the HGPS was applied to two case studies, one of which was a transport issue and the other a public health issue, in order to demonstrate the advantages of HGPS over the traditional population grids produced by Areal Weighting Method (AWM). HGPS is an important step towards solving the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) and expected to serve as a more accurate denominator in various research fields, such as public health, crime analysis, etc.

About the Author

He earned his B.Eng. in Environmental Engineering and M.S. in GIS from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined the University of Florida in August 2010 and started working in Emerging Pathogens Institute at UF since 2011. Upon graduating in May 2012 with his M.S. in Geography, he entered the Ph.D. program in Louisiana State University.