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Harmonised building footprints and heights for Europe (EUBUCCO)

Tools & geometry

Open database of over 300 million individual buildings across the EU, UK, Norway and Switzerland, with height, type and age, for city-scale geometry and morphology parameters.

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Download (v0.2) DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6524780
Licence
ODbL 1.0 (mostly; some regional CC inputs) Open Database Licence: free to use and share with credit; share adapted databases under the same licence.

How to cite

Milojevic-Dupont, N., Nachtigall, F., & Creutzig, F. (2023). Harmonised building footprints and heights for Europe (EUBUCCO) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6524780

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Details

Resource
Geometry
Geometry
City scale
Topic
Parameterisation
Location
Europe
Year
2023
Creators
Nikola Milojevic-Dupont; Florian Nachtigall; Felix Creutzig
Institution
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; TU Berlin

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Papers that describe or use this resource.

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