Human population, urban settlement patterns and their impact on Plasmodium falciparum malaria endemicity

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Features of each of the six global urban maps tested in this study

Urban Map	Spatial Resolution	Production Year	Reference/Source/Data used
AVHRR	1 km	1998	[31]
VMAP0	Vector polygons: 1:1000000	1997	[32]
GRUMP-UE	1 km	2004	[33, 34]
Edited GRUMP-UE	1 km	2008	[27, 33, 34]
GUERRA	1 km	2008	[15]
MODIS	1 km	2002	[35, 36]
HAY-GPW-U	5 km	2008	[13]
HAY-GPW-U-PU	5 km	2008	[13]
HAY-GRUMP-U	1 km	2008	[13]
HAY-GRUMP-U-PU	1 km	2008	[13]

GRUMP-UE = Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project Urban Extents; AVHRR = AVHRR Global Land Cover Classification urban land cover class; MODIS = MODIS Land Cover Product Binary Data from Boston University; VMAP0 = Vector map level zero; GUERRA = Population density based map described in Guerra et al. [15]; HAY-GPW-U = Population density based map described in Hay et al. [13], maintaining 'urban' class as urban and the remaining 3 classes merged to form the rural class; HAY-GPW-U-PU = Same as previous map, but merging 'urban' and 'peri-urban' classes into a single urban class; HAY-GRUMP-U = Same as previous map, but classes were defined using GRUMP and maintaining 'urban' class as urban and the remaining 3 classes merged to form the rural class; HAY-GRUMP-U-PU = same as previous map, but merging 'urban' and 'peri-urban' classes into a single urban class.

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