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Global Urban Footprint

Overview
Dataset Title Global Urban Footprint ?
Abstract GUF is a data product generated from a global coverage of the Earth surface with TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X radar data with a resolution of 2.8 arcseconds. ?
Citation Esch, T., Marconcini, M., Felbier, A., Roth, A., Heldens, W., Huber, M., Schwinger, M., Taubenböck, H., Müller, A., Dech, S. (2013) Urban Footprint Processor – Fully Automated Processing Chain Generating Settlement Masks from Global Data of the TanDEM-X Mission. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 10, No. 6, November 2013. Pp. 1617-1621. ISSN 1545-598X, DOI 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2272953. ?
Topic Category environment ?
Dataset Description
Dataset Contact Person or Dataset Contact Organisation DLR - German Aerospace Center ?
Dataset Date Type creation ?
Dataset Reference Date 2013-01-01 ?
Dataset Language English ?
Dataset Character Set unknown ?
Dataset Online Linkage HTTPS://CODE-DE.ORG/EN/RECORD/5FD5BF46-BA85-4672-A4D0-76F322C69201 ?
Dataset Format GeoTIFF ?
Dataset Scope dataset ?
Dataset Status completed ?
Associated project SASSCAL (Phase 1) ?
Subproject 002 Remote Sensing applications for flood risk management ?
Geographic Location
Description Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia ?
Geographic Description Angola ?
Spatial Resolution
Spatial Representation Type grid ?
Equivalent Scale -1 ?
Coordinate System
EPSG WGS 84 (lat/long) ?
Additional Extent Information
Vertical Datum unknown ?
Metadata
Metadata Contact Person Müller, Inken ?
Metadata Language English ?
Metadata Character Set utf8 ?
Metadata Standard Name ISO/DIS 19115 for Geographic information-Metadata /RBIS ?
Metadata Date Stamp 2017-09-27 ?
Identifier
Internal identifier sdp_geodata_2824 (Link)