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Global Human Settlement Layer (Population & Built-Up)
Provides spatial distribution of population and urbanization
Dataset summary
- Provider
- European Commission JRC (GHSL)
- Spatial coverage
- Global
- Temporal coverage
- 1975-2025
- Spatial resolution
- 30m - 1km
- Temporal resolution
- Yearly
- Formats
- GeoTIFF
- Climate variable tags
- Land Cover / Built Environment
- Observatory relevance
- North Carolina, Amazon Basin, East Africa, Southeast Asia
Variables and notes
- Provides spatial distribution of population and urbanization
Related learning resources
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