People and Pixels 20 years later: the current data landscape and research trends blending population and environmental data

In 1998, the National Research Council published People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science. The volume focused on emerging research linking changes in human populations and land use/land cover to shed light on issues of sustainability, human livelihoods, and conservation, and led...

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Published in:Population and environment 2019-12, Vol.41 (2), p.209-234
Main Authors: Kugler, Tracy A., Grace, Kathryn, Wrathall, David J., de Sherbinin, Alex, Van Riper, David, Aubrecht, Christoph, Comer, Douglas, Adamo, Susana B., Cervone, Guido, Engstrom, Ryan, Hultquist, Carolynne, Gaughan, Andrea E., Linard, Catherine, Moran, Emilio, Stevens, Forrest, Tatem, Andrew J., Tellman, Beth, Van Den Hoek, Jamon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural practices
Agricultural research
Climate change
Conservation
Data
Demography
Drought
Electronic devices
Environment
Environmental monitoring
Famine
Human populations
Human-environment relationship
Impact analysis
Innovations
Interdisciplinary aspects
Land cover
Land use
Methodological problems
Original Paper
Pixels
Population Economics
Poverty
Public Health
Remote sensing
Social Sciences
Sociology
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Summary:In 1998, the National Research Council published People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science. The volume focused on emerging research linking changes in human populations and land use/land cover to shed light on issues of sustainability, human livelihoods, and conservation, and led to practical innovations in agricultural planning, hazard impact analysis, and drought monitoring. Since then, new research opportunities have emerged thanks to the growing variety of remotely sensed data sources, an increasing array of georeferenced social science data, including data from mobile devices, and access to powerful computation cyberinfrastructure. In this article, we outline the key extensions of the People and Pixels foundation since 1998 and highlight several breakthroughs in research on human-environment interactions. We also identify pressing research problems—disaster, famine, drought, war, poverty, climate change—and explore how interdisciplinary approaches integrating people and pixels are being used to address them.
ISSN:0199-0039
1573-7810
DOI:10.1007/s11111-019-00326-5