UNEP/GRID-Geneva metadata catalogue
Global Urban Footprint (84m)
The objective of the “Global Urban Footprint” (GUF) project is the worldwide mapping of settlements with unprecedented spatial resolution of 0.4 arcsec (~12 m). A total of 180 000 TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X scenes have been processed to create the GUF. The resulting map shows the Earth in three colors only: black for “urban areas”, white for “land surface” and grey for “water”. This reduction emphasizes the settlement patterns and allows for the analysis of urban structures, and hence the proportion of settled areas, the regional population distribution and the arrangement of rural and urban areas.
The Release of public domain GUF with ~2.8’’ (84m) spatial resolution for any non-profit use is planned in 2016.
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2014-05-30T00:00:00
- Identifier
- http://datacore.grid.unep.ch/geonetwork/srv/metadata/b886eacd-8373-4ce7-973e-893078449abe
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Status
- Under development
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- GRID core datasets
- global
- settlemement
- agglomeration
- city
- analysis
- Keywords ( Place )
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- World
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Public domain for any non-profit use
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Denominator
- 10000000
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Society
- Begin date
- 2011
- End date
- 2013
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- OnLine resource
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Data download (planned in 2016)
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Data download (planned in 2016)
- OnLine resource
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Supplementary info
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Supplementary info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- File identifier
- b886eacd-8373-4ce7-973e-893078449abe XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2016-04-27T13:47:54
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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