The draft Auckland Unitary Plan outlines the future land used for new housing and businesses with Auckland population growth over the next thirty years. According to Auckland Unitary Plan, over the next 30 years, the population of Auckland is projected to increase by one million, and up to 70% of total new dwellings occur within the existing urban area. Intensification will not only increase th...

In the last several years, remote sensing technology has opened up the possibility of performing large scale building detection from satellite imagery. Our work is some of the first to create population density maps from building detection on a large scale. The scale of our work on population density estimation via high resolution satellite images raises many issues, that we will address in thi...

Second order statistics estimates in the form of sample eigenvalues and sample eigenvectors give a sub optimal description of the population density. So far only attempts have been made to reduce the bias in the sample eigenvalues. However, because the sample eigenvectors differ from the population eigenvectors as well, the population eigenvalues are biased estimates of the variances along the ...