Replication Data for: A spatially-explicit sensitivity analysis of urban definitions: uncovering implicit assumptions in the Degree of Urbanisation

This repository contains the R code and data needed to replicate the analysis in our paper "A spatially-explicit sensitivity analysis of urban definitions: uncovering implicit assumptions in the <i>Degree of Urbanisation</i>". All code is organized in computational notebooks, arranged sequentially in the <code>code</code> folder. The analyses mainly rely on the open-source data products provided by the <a href='https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/'>Global Human Settlement Layer</a>. Other data sets needed to reproduce the analyses are included in the <code>data</code> folder. The resulting grid classifications of the 1458 alternative realisations of the <i>Degree of Urbanisation</i> are included in the <code>results/grid_classifications</code> folder. The metadata (e.g. criterion settings) associated with each realisation is included in the <code>data/criterion_ID.csv</code> file. The final sensitivity map and all grid classifications are also visualised on <a href='https://platform-dou.snl.ees.kuleuven.be'>this web-platform</a>. For further details, please refer to the enclosed <code>README</code> file and the original publication.