Researchers use cellphone data to construct population density maps
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 08:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers made up of members with diverse, multi-national backgrounds has found a way to construct population density maps using cellphone data. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes how they obtained the cellphone data, how accurate their maps were and possible uses for such maps in the future.