Mapping the settlement of Latino poultry workers is its idea of a sexy piece.
Just look at a map of the settlements on the West Bank, some of which are so far east they are almost in Jordan.
Where settlement extent was mapped as smaller in the settlement map than the 'urban area' or 'rural settlement' classes in Africover, the surrounding land covers were grown to infill the gaps.
"Sharon is not about to change the settlement map," Yossi Beilin, co-author of the Geneva Accords, the private peace plan announced in Switzerland a few weeks ago, wrote in the daily Maariv on Friday.
For the next stage of the fence, he hints, he has drawn one map that would leave the settlement of Ariel, a town of 15,000 people 10 miles from the Green Line, outside the barrier -- and another that would put it inside.
Finally, EApop3 was applied using the settlement map, Africover data and highest administrative level census data (figure 1) for the East African region.
On a recent trip to Washington DC, I delivered a presentation (pdf) on mapping the informal settlements of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana.
While the accuracies presented in table 1 are relatively high, difficulties within the settlement mapping process did lead to potential errors.
The remaining 25% of Africover settlement polygons were rasterised to the same 30 m spatial resolution grid as the settlement maps, and all grid squares within each settlement extent were identified for the calculation of accuracy statistics.
Finally, in the cases where selection of neighbouring Landsat scenes acquired at different times of the year (Figure S1) were unavoidable, differing lighting conditions and vegetation growth stages are likely to have contributed to some spatial inconsistency within the settlement mapping [15].
