Urban and Regional Built-Up Analysis (URBA): Production of a population grid in Europe (1km of resolution)

Mapping settlements in Europe is an on-going research project performed in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). The Joint Research Centre (JRC) expertise in automatic extraction of information from satellite imagery for the mapping of human settlements has been further enhanced with state-of-the-art population disaggregation methodologies with an aim to provide fine resolution population data across Europe, where detailed population data do not exist, to enable evaluation of current, and planning of future European policies in the context of territorial cohesion. The work described in this technical report, summarizes the background, methodology, experiments, reference data, and results, which has been performed towards a wall-to-wall population grid in Europe at 1 sq.km of resolution.JRC.G.2-Global security and crisis managemen