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The Global Human Settlement Layer: Population and Built-Up Estimates, and Degree of Urbanization Settlement Model Grid data set provides gridded data on human population (GHS-POP), built-up area (GHS-BUILT), and degree of urbanization (GHS-SMOD) across four time periods: 1975, 1990, 2000, and 2014 (BUILT) or 2015 (POP, SMOD). GHS-BUILT describes the percent built-up area for each 30 arc-second grid cell (approximately 1 km at the equator) based on Landsat imagery from each of the four time periods. GHS-POP consists of census data from the 2010 round of global census from Gridded Population of the World, Version 4, Revision 10 (GPWv4.10) spatially-allocated within census Units based on the percent built-up areas from GHS-BUILT. GHS-SMOD uses GHS-BUILT and GHS-POP in order to develop a standardized classification of degree of urbanization grid. The original data from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC-EC) has been combined into a single data package in GeoTIFF format and reprojected from Mollweide Equal Area into WGS84 at 9 arc-second and 30 arc-second horizontal resolutions in order to support integration with a variety of global raster data sets.
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MODELS
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Computer
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GHSL
Spatial Extent
N: 90S: -90E: 180W: -180
Spatial Resolution
0.008333 Decimal Degrees x 0.008333 Decimal Degrees
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Joint Research Centre-JRC-European Commission, & Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University. (2021). Global Human Settlement Layer: Population and Built-Up Estimates, and Degree of Urbanization Settlement Model Grid (Version 1.00) [Dataset]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4154F0W Date Accessed: 2026-09-11
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title={Global Human Settlement Layer: Population and Built-Up Estimates, and Degree of Urbanization Settlement Model Grid},
url={https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/sedac-ciesin-sedac-ghsl-pbsmod-1.0},
DOI={10.7927/H4154F0W},
publisher={Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)},
author={Joint Research Centre-JRC-European Commission and Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University},
year={2021},
}
Joint Research Centre-JRC-European Commission, & Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University. (2021). Global Human Settlement Layer: Population and Built-Up Estimates, and Degree of Urbanization Settlement Model Grid (Version 1.00) [Dataset]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4154F0W Date Accessed: 2026-09-11
Joint Research Centre-JRC-European Commission, and Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University. “Global Human Settlement Layer: Population and Built-Up Estimates, and Degree of Urbanization Settlement Model Grid.” Version 1.00, Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), 2021, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4154F0W. Date Accessed: 2026-09-11
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