The Degree of Urbanisation

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Description du cours

The Degree of Urbanisation is a method to delineate cities, towns, suburbs and rural areas for international statistical comparison. It has been adopted by the 51st Statistical Commission of the United Nations. This training provides the necessary background to apply independently the Degree of Urbanisation method. We offer a multi-level learning experience across the various aspects of the Degree of Urbanisation, to help understanding what it is and how it can be applied to your own data. Applications include Sustainable Development Goals monitoring and breakdown by urbanisation class, disaster risk management, environmental and climate investigations, demography, development and cooperation.

Public cible

Statisticians, geographers, digital cartography technicians, administrative officers in the spatial planning domain, policy makers in territorial planning at national and subnational levels. Researchers in the domain of Earth Observation may also be interested.

Objectifs d'apprentissage

With easy-to-use tools developed at the European Commission´s Joint Research Centre you will learn how to:

Map population on a territory of interest with a population grid,
Classify grid cells based on population size and density, and grid cells contiguity by Degree of Urbanisation,
Transfer this classification to small administrative or census subdivisions of a territory,
Create shareable maps of territorial analytics linked with settlements and their sustainability levels.

You will understand the importance and the benefits of using a worldwide common definition of urban, suburban and rural areas - the Degree of Urbanisation, and how such classification could serve policy-making towards Sustainable Development Goals.

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Ce contenu est offert par la Commission européenne. La Commission européenne est le bras exécutif politiquement indépendant de l'Union européenne. Elle est seule chargée d'élaborer des propositions de nouvelle législation européenne et elle met en œuvre les décisions du Parlement européen et du Cons

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Programme

General

Module 1. Background and welcome

Module 2. Introduction and overview

Module 3. The built-up surface layer

Module 4. The population grid

Module 5. The degree of urbanisation grid

Module 6. The territorial units classifier

Module 7. Application perspective

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