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USA_TILE_POPULATION

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posted on 2023-03-08, 05:40 authored by Winston YapWinston Yap

Data for Good Meta. High resolution population estimates for the United States. Includes total population, men, women, women of reproductive age, elderly, youth, and children subgroups. Creative Commons Attribute International License. 


To facilitate population data retrieval across scale, we segment spatial coverage into 130 equal sized tiles. GPU enabled spatial join via RapidsAI was employed to assign population information with each vector tile. 


Reference: Facebook Connectivity Lab and Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University. 2016. High Resolution Settlement Layer (HRSL). Source imagery for HRSL © 2016 DigitalGlobe. Accessed 4 November 2022.

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R-295-000-171-133

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