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Building footprints with height, function and age for 3,667 Chinese cities (CMAB)

Tools & geometry

About 31 million vector building footprints with height, structure, function, age and other attributes: footprint-level geometry for LES and CFD domains anywhere in mainland China.

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Dataset (Mendeley Data) DOI 10.17632/b4t2wxhn2y.5
Licence
CC BY 4.0 Free to use and share, including commercially, as long as you credit the creators.

How to cite

Zhang, Y., Zhao, H., & Long, Y. (2025). Building footprints with height, function and age for 3,667 Chinese cities (CMAB) [Data set]. Mendeley Data. https://doi.org/10.17632/b4t2wxhn2y.5

Please also cite the publication below that describes it.

Details

Resource
Geometry
Geometry
City scale
Location
China · more from China
Year
2025
Creators
Yecheng Zhang; Huimin Zhao; Ying Long
Institution
Tsinghua University

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Papers that describe or use this resource.

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