World Urban Areas - Natural Earth

Area of dense human habitation.

Derived from 2002-2003 MODIS satellite data at 1 km resolution: Schneider, A., M. A. Friedl, D. K. McIver, and C. E. Woodcock (2003) Mapping urban areas by fusing multiple sources of coarse resolution remotely sensed data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, volume 69, pages 1377-1386.

Date ( Revision ): 2012-10-12T00:00:00

Identifier: http://datacore.grid.unep.ch/geonetwork/srv/metadata/79eef56a-c33c-48da-a93c-6717641a74f0

Presentation form: Digital map

Purpose: The urban area polygons are primarily intended for general visual representation of urbanized areas and do not represent a complete set of all world populated places.

Status: Obsolete

Point of contact

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Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Keywords ( Theme )

GRID core datasets
global
settlemement
agglomeration
city
mapping

Keywords ( Place )

World

Access constraints: License

Use constraints: License

Other constraints: Public Domain

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 10000000

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Society

Begin date: 2002

End date: 2003

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