Presentation: A 100m Resolution Travel Time Map

Dr Gary Watmough, a researcher at the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, recently presented the findings of our extended Child Poverty Access to Services project to a group of more than 50 members of the UNICEF Geosciences group. This project has been a collaborative partnership between Data for Children Collaborative, the School of Geosciences and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and  UNICEF.  Building on the initial project published in 2022, the extended project provides more specific and varied results.

In this 15-minute presentation, Dr Watmough, the project’s principal investigator, details how the team generated novel, more sustainable maps with a five-fold increased resolution for nearly the entire continent of Africa and its island states, including 54 Countries. This innovation significantly improved the calculation of how distance and geographic accessibility to health and education services contribute to childhood poverty.