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The layers present the application of the Degree of Urbanisation stage I methodology recommended by UN Statistical Commission to the global population grid generated by the JRC in the epochs 1975-2030 (5 years timestep). They have been generated by integration of built-up surface extracted from Landsat and Sentinel-2 image data processing (GHS-BUILT-S R2023), and population data derived from the CIESIN GPW v4.11 (GHS-POP R2023). This product (v2) is an update of the data released in 2023 (v1) based on GHS-BUILT-S, GHS-POP and uses an updated definition of Semi-Dennse Urban Clusters. The Settlement Model is provided at the detailed level (Second Level - L2). First level can be obtained aggregating L2.
Overview
The layers present the application of the Degree of Urbanisation stage I methodology recommended by UN Statistical Commission to the global population grid generated by the JRC in the epochs 1975-2030 (5 years timestep). They have been generated by integration of built-up surface extracted from Landsat and Sentinel-2 image data processing (GHS-BUILT-S R2023), and population data derived from the CIESIN GPW v4.11 (GHS-POP R2023). This product (v2) is an update of the data released in 2023 (v1) based on GHS-BUILT-S, GHS-POP and uses an updated definition of Semi-Dennse Urban Clusters. The Settlement Model is provided at the detailed level (Second Level - L2). First level can be obtained aggregating L2.
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- Description
- The GHS settlement raster layer in World Mollweide (EPSG:54009) at 1km spatial resolution; also available in WGS 1984 (EPSG:4326) at 30ss spatial resolution. Spatial extent is Global and temporal extent is from 1975 to 2030 in 5 years interval
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- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::jrc-ghsl/ghs-smod
- AWS region
- eu-central-1
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://jrc-ghsl/ghs-smod/
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- Resource type
- SNS topic
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:sns:eu-central-1:291461994469:jrc-ghsl-object_created
- AWS region
- eu-central-1
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GHS-SMOD was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/ghs-smod .
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The GHSL data are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
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