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10 m building-height map of China for 2020 (CNBH-10m)

Tools & geometry

National 10 m raster of building height for 2020, estimated from radar, optical and night-light imagery (RMSE about 6 m); a source of urban morphology for parameterisations and mesoscale models across China.

Get the data

Dataset (Zenodo) DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7923866
Licence
CC BY 4.0 Free to use and share, including commercially, as long as you credit the creators.

How to cite

Wu, W.-B. (2020). 10 m building-height map of China for 2020 (CNBH-10m) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7923866

Please also cite the publication below that describes it.

Details

Resource
Geometry
Geometry
City scale
Topic
Parameterisation
Location
China · more from China
Year
2020
Creators
Wan-ben Wu
Institution
Fudan University

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Papers that describe or use this resource.

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