Degree of Urbanisation Territorial Units Classifier User Guide Version 1
The Degree of Urbanisation Territorial Units Classifier (GHS-DU-TUC) Tool (– version 1) is an information system developed in the framework of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) to produce the classification of territorial units based on the Degree of Urbanisation and extract related statistics. The tool classifies territorial units by Degree of Urbanisation at Level 1 (3 classes) and Level 2 (7 classes) based on population majority by settlement classes derived from the “Degree of Urbanisation” method and ported to the GHSL environment through the GHSL Settlement Model (GHSL SMOD).
The GHS-DU-TUC 1 is designed as an operational tool to perform the second step required to apply the Degree of Urbanisation released as standalone tool and as ArcGIS Toolbox. Once the first step produces the settlement classification grid (i.e. with the GHS-DUG Tool), the user runs the GHS-DU-TUC that requires this settlement classification grid, the population grid used to produce the settlement classification grid (i.e. produced with the GHS-POP2G Tool) and a geometry of territorial units to be classified by Degree of Urbanisation. This tool is conceptualised to be deployed after the application of the GHSL tools GHS-POP2G and GHS-DUG but it accepts in input population grids produced by means of any other procedure respecting the described constrains.
This document contains the description of the GHS-DU-TUC Tool use, the rationale for the second step to apply the Degree of Urbanisation (the classification of territorial units) and the comprehensive description of the outputs. The tool is a capacity enhancement asset in the framework of the multi-stakeholder effort for the uptake of the Degree of Urbanisation, the people-based harmonised definition of cities and settlements recommended by the 51st Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission as the method to delineate cities and rural areas for international statistical comparison.
The GHS-DU-TUC, as all GHSL Tools, is issued with an end-user licence agreement, included in the download package.
MAFFENINI Luca;
SCHIAVINA Marcello;
MELCHIORRI Michele;
PESARESI Martino;
KEMPER Thomas;
2020-10-02
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC121486
978-92-76-22421-1 (online),
978-92-76-22422-8 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 30385 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30385-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-30385-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC121486,
10.2760/633624 (online),
10.2760/638429 (print),
