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.

GHSL download ↗ DOI 10.2905/85005901-3A49-48DD-9D19-6261354F56FE

Resource: Geometry
Geometry: City scale
Topic: Parameterisation
Location: Global
Year: 2018
Licence: Free reuse with acknowledgement (European Commission)
Creators: Martino Pesaresi; Panagiotis Politis
Institution: European Commission Joint Research Centre

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Advances on the Global Human Settlement Layer by joint assessment of Earth Observation and population survey data (2024)

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