Global 100 m average building height (GHSL built-up height)
Tools & geometry
JRC Global Human Settlement Layer estimate of average building height on a 100 m grid worldwide for 2018; a consistent source of urban morphology for parameterisations and mesoscale models.
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- Licence
- Free reuse with acknowledgement (European Commission)
How to cite
Pesaresi, M., & Politis, P. (2018). Global 100 m average building height (GHSL built-up height) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.2905/85005901-3A49-48DD-9D19-6261354F56FE
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Details
- Resource
- Geometry
- Geometry
- City scale
- Topic
- Parameterisation
- Location
- Global
- Year
- 2018
- Creators
- Martino Pesaresi; Panagiotis Politis
- Institution
- European Commission Joint Research Centre
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