Open Buildings data

By Attila N Lazar and Tim O’Riordan While global immunisation efforts have seen significant progress, our new high-resolution, digital population and vaccination coverage maps produced for the UNICEF-funded Reach the Unreached project indicate that nearly one million children in five West and Central African countries remain unreached by vaccination services. Despite increased access in many […]

In a fascinating conversation with journalist and Academy of Social Sciences President Will Hutton, Professor Andy Tatem explains how satellite imagery and mobile phone data are transforming population mapping across the Global South. Used by governments for critical resource allocation, these data is reshaping how policies are made. Professor Tatem shares real-world examples from Papua

Back in September, BBC Tech Life’s Chris Vallance caught up with our director, Professor Andy Tatem to talk about Google’s Open Buildings project, a massive effort to map and monitor changes in the built environment using satellite data. Professor Tatem explained how this ground breaking dataset is helping WorldPop improve our estimates of where people