World Settlement Footprint 2015 (WSF - DLR-EOC)

Data provided by: | Earth Observation Center (EOC) at DLR |
Data accessibility: | export data, export map |
Link to the data: | |
File type: | GeoTIFF |
Data type: | baseline data , land use, land cover data , satellite data or aerial image |
Hazard: | Mouvement de masse |
Disaster cycle phase: | n/a |
Space-based information: | DLR's Earth Observation Center (EOC) utilises satellite data to map human settlements on a global level with high accuracy. The World Settlement Footprint (WSF) 2015 gives an overview and insight into urban structures in the year 2015. The satellites Landsat 8 and Sentinel 1 (A/B) are responsible for providing optical and satellite imagery from 2014-2015 for WSF data. |
Satellites and Sensors: | Sentinel-1A, Sentinel-1B, Landsat 8 |
Temporal coverage: | Archive |
Content dates: | 2014-2015 |
Technical Specifications: | n/a |
Costs: | free |
Tutorials on the use of data: | n/a |
Restrictions/ Citation of the dataset: | Marconcini, Mattia; Metz-Marconcini, Annekatrin; Üreyen, Soner; Palacios-Lopez, Daniela; Hanke, Wiebke; Bachofer, Felix; et al. (2020): World Settlement Footprint (WSF) 2015. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.10048412.v1 |