Degree of Urbanisation Grid User Guide
- 1. UniSystems Luxembourg SàRL
- 2. Joint Research Centre (JRC) European Commission
- 3. Engineering S.p.a
Description
The Degree of Urbanisation Grid (GHS-DUG) Tool (– version 4) is an information system developed in the framework of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) to produce geospatial grids to map settlement classes and extract related statistics. The settlement classes are derived from the "Degree of Urbanisation" method and ported to the GHSL environment through the GHSL Settlement Model (GHSL SMOD).The GHS-DUG 4 is designed as a scalable tool allowing the application of the GHSL Settlement Model to the input data available to the user or to data made available in the GHSL Data Package 2019. This document contains the description of the GHS-DUG Tool use, the rationale of the differentiation between settlement classes 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-DUG, as all GHSL Tools, is issued with an end-user licence agreement, included in the download package.
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.