Table 1

Features of each of the six global urban maps tested in this study

GRUMP-UE = Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project Urban Extents; AVHRR = AVHRR Global Land Cover Classification urban land cover class; MODIS = MODIS Land Cover Product Binary Data from Boston University; VMAP0 = Vector map level zero; GUERRA = Population density based map described in Guerra et al. [15]; HAY-GPW-U = Population density based map described in Hay et al. [13], maintaining 'urban' class as urban and the remaining 3 classes merged to form the rural class; HAY-GPW-U-PU = Same as previous map, but merging 'urban' and 'peri-urban' classes into a single urban class; HAY-GRUMP-U = Same as previous map, but classes were defined using GRUMP and maintaining 'urban' class as urban and the remaining 3 classes merged to form the rural class; HAY-GRUMP-U-PU = same as previous map, but merging 'urban' and 'peri-urban' classes into a single urban class.

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