A webinar to introduce the topic to PERN cyberseminar participants took place at 10am US EDT (UTC -4) on 14 October 2019.

Written by Alyson Marks

“If we want to help people, we need to know where they are. If we want accurate maps, we can’t rely on our best guess.” – Vince Seaman of the Gates Foundation during his keynote address on the importance of gridded population data

POPGRID released a new open access journal article in the journal Earth System Science Data entitled "The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use.”