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Title: | Description of the GHS Urban Centre Database 2015 |
Authors: | FLORCZYK ANETA; MELCHIORRI MICHELE; CORBAN CHRISTINA; SCHIAVINA MARCELLO; MAFFENINI LUCA; PESARESI MARTINO; POLITIS PANAGIOTIS; SABO FILIP; CARNEIRO FREIRE SERGIO MANUEL; EHRLICH DANIELE; KEMPER THOMAS; TOMMASI PIERPAOLO; AIRAGHI DONATO; ZANCHETTA LUIGI |
Publisher: | Publications Office of the European Union |
Publication Year: | 2019 |
JRC N°: | JRC115586 |
ISBN: | 978-92-79-99753-2 (online) |
Other Identifiers: | OP KJ-02-19-103-EN-N (online) |
URI: | http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC115586 |
DOI: | 10.2760/037310 |
Type: | EUR - Scientific and Technical Research Reports |
Abstract: | The Global Human Settlement Layer Urban Centres Database (GHS-UCDB) is the most complete database on cities to date, publicly released as an open and free dataset - GHS STAT UCDB2015MT GLOBE R2019A V1.0. The database represents the global status on Urban Centres in 2015 by offering cities location, their extent (surface, shape), and describing each city with a set of geographical, socio-economic and environmental attributes, many of them going back 25 or even 40 years in time. Urban Centres are defined in a consistent way across geographical locations and over time, applying the “Global Definition of Cities and Settlements” developed by the European Union to the Global Human Settlement Layer Built-up (GHS-BUILT) areas and Population (GHS-POP) grids. This report contains the description of the dimensions and the derived attributes that characterise the Urban Centres in the database. The document includes notes about methodology and sources. The GHS-UCDB contains information for more than 10,000 Urban Centres and it is the baseline data of the analytical results presented in the Atlas of the Human Planet 2018. |
JRC Directorate: | Space, Security and Migration |
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