Global Man-made Impervious Surface and Human Built-up and Settlement Extent Data Visualization and Access Tool

Description

The NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) has developed a set of image and geo-processing services and a web application leveraging these services to visualize, analyze, and download data layers and corresponding uncertainty layers from the GMIS and HBASE data sets produced by researchers at NASA Goddard and University of Maryland, led by Eric Brown de Colstoun and Chengquan Huang. The data can be downloaded at 30m, 250m, or 1km resolutions in Geographic coordinates or in UTM zones. Users can sub-set the data by country, tile, user-supplied shapefile, or user-drawn polygon. The services can also be accessed by external client applications and visualization tools, such as NASA's WorldView, NOAA's Climate Explorer, ArcGIS Online, and QGIS. This Knowledge Package link the resources developed by SEDAC, including the tool and datasets.

Related materials

This resource is associated with the Earth Observations Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements. If you want to learn more about it, please, check the EO Toolkit portal (https://eotoolkit.unhabitat.org/), a place where you will find use cases, learning material, and many other tools and resources related to the Sustainable Development Goal 11 and New Urban Agenda.

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