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Dar es Salaam Land Use and Informal Settlement Data Set, v1 (1982, 1992, 1998, 2002)

Data for the years 1982, 1992 and 1998 were produced by and under the supervision of Dr. R. Sliuzas, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Netherlands. See more information in Chapter 5 of Sliuzas (2004), Managing Informal Settlements: A Study Using Geo-Information in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at http://www.itc.nl/library/Papers_2004/phd/sliuzas.pdf

Data for 2002 were produced by Alexandra Hill and Christian Lindner of TU Dortmund, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Greiving, Institute of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University (IRPUD). See more information in Section IV of Hill and Lindner (2010), Modelling Informal Urban Growth Under Rapid Urbanisation: A CA-based Land-use Simulation Model for the City of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/bitstream/2003/27283/1/Dissertationsschrift_Hill_Lindner_Juni_2010.pdf