Table 2 Performance with fine supervision for Tanzania and Zambia.

From: Fine-grained population mapping from coarse census counts and open geodata

Evaluation set

Method

\(R^2 \uparrow\) [%]

MAE \(\downarrow\)

MAPE \(\downarrow\) [%]

Tanzania

RF per region6

79.1 ± 2.6

3320 ± 70

22.1 ± 0.3

CNN

80.8 ± 2.1

3290 ± 80

21.7 ± 0.4

Pomelo

87.6 ± 0.2

2890 ± 20

20.4 ± 0.3

Zambia

RF per region6

87.6 ± 0.0

3740 ± 40

46.5 ± 0.4

CNN

88.2 ± 0.4

3680 ± 50

44.9 ± 0.4

Pomelo

88.7 ± 0.3

3650 ± 20

48.0 ± 0.6