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LandScan Population Data Global 1km

The LandScan dataset, provided by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), offers a comprehensive and high-resolution global population distribution dataset that serves as a valuable resource for a wide range of applications. Leveraging state-of-the-art spatial modeling techniques and advanced geospatial data sources, LandScan provides detailed information on population counts and density at a 30 arc-second resolution, enabling precise and up-to-date insights into human settlement patterns acro

Source details

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Evidence quality: 29.1

Listed in gee public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• ee.ImageCollection('projects/sat-io/open-datasets/ORNL/LANDSCAN_GLOBAL')
• https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/projects_sat-io_open-datasets_ORNL_LANDSCAN_GLOBAL

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