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Description

This dataset consists of very high resolution urban land cover maps for two African cities, Mekelle, Ethiopia and Polokwane, South Africa for 2020. Maps were generated from Planet SuperDove satellite imagery at 3.125-m spatial resolution, and Worldview-3 satellite imagery (Maxar Techologies) at two spatial resolutions, 2 m for multispectral imagery and 0.5-m spatial resolution for pansharpened imagery. An object-based image classification approach was used to produce a multi-class land cover product for each image source. The aim of this work was to support fine scale urban land cover analyses and comparative assessments between different high resolution satellite imagery sources. The data are provided in shapefile format.

Product Summary

Platforms
PlanetScope,
WORLDVIEW-3
Instruments
PSB.SD,
WV110
Spatial Extent
N: 13.5692 S: -23.9404 E: 39.5708 W: 29.3151
Geographic Region
ETHIOPIA,
SOUTH AFRICA
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2020-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
c3583713743-ornl_cloud
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Cardenas-Ritzert, O. S. E., Shah Heydari, S., Rode, D. T., & Vogeler, J. (2025). Urban Land Cover Maps for Mekelle, Ethiopia and Polokwane, South Africa, 2020 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2413 Date Accessed: 2025-07-28

Documents

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION Urban Land Cover Maps for Mekelle, Ethiopia and Polokwane, South Africa, 2020: VHR_Urban_Land_Cover_Maps.pdf
USER'S GUIDE ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation

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