Using Earth Observations to Calculate Ratio of Land Consumption Rate to Population Growth Rate
Description
How you can use this Knowledge Package?
Users can leverage the Toolkit's resources (e.g., tools, training resources) to visualize and assess available data and more quickly access data of interest to compute indicator 11.3.1.
Overview
Earth observations (EO) can be used to characterize the physical properties of urban land cover and land use, and quantify changes. Large archives of satellite data from the USGS/ NASA Landsat and EU/ESA Copernicus Programme, among others, offer unprecedented capabilities for identifying and analyzing patterns of urbanization and types of built-up structures. EO also indirectly support the generation of disaggregated maps of global, regional or national census data.
This application allows the monitoring urban growth and comparing it with other key national and demographic indicators and this gives planners and data analysts good insights.
This is application is part of the The Earth Observations Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements (unhabitat.org)
Methods and required resources
The EO data sets described above primarily use EO technology to extract relevant metrics and inform indicator 11.3.1. Some familiarity with EO tools and techniques for processing, interpreting and manipulating geospatial data products can be beneficial. Users should also be familiar with some of the inherent limitations of these data sets, as described above.