Global Health Data Exchange - Discover the World's Health Data

Global Human Settlement Grid Version R2016A 1975-2015

Nav

General Info
Original or alternative title 
GHS S-MOD R2016A
Provider 
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Geography 
Global
Coverage type 
Global
Time period covered 
01/1975 - 12/2015
Series or system 
Global Human Settlement Grid (GHS-SMOD)
Data type
Geospatial data:
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
Summary 

The Global Human Settlement grid dataset, supprorted by the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, is a geospatial built environment layer based on data extracted from heterogeneous sources, including satellite data, census data, and crowdsourced data. The dataset contains a 1 km grid for each epoch (1975, 1990, 2000, and 2015). This version is based on REGIO model using Landsat and data and population data from CIESIN GPW v4.

GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 1, 2024