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Global Human Settlement Grid Version R2016A 1975-2015

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
GHS S-MOD R2016A
Geography 
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.