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Global 3D building footprints with heights (3D-GloBFP)

Tools & geometry

Building footprints with estimated heights worldwide for 2020, as regional shapefile tiles; strongest in China, weaker in Japan and Korea.

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Asia tiles (Zenodo) Europe tiles (Zenodo) Americas, Africa and Oceania tiles (Zenodo) DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15487006
Licence
CC BY 4.0 Free to use and share, including commercially, as long as you credit the creators.
Formats
Shapefile

How to cite

Sun Yat-sen University. (2020). Global 3D building footprints with heights (3D-GloBFP) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15487006

Please also cite the publication below that describes it.

Details

Resource
Geometry
Geometry
City scale
Location
Global
Year
2020
Institution
Sun Yat-sen University

Linked publications

Papers that describe or use this resource.

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