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Description

The Global Human Built-up And Settlement Extent (HBASE) Dataset from Landsat is a global map of HBASE derived from the Global Land Survey (GLS) Landsat dataset for the target year 2010. The HBASE dataset consists of two layers: 1) the HBASE mask; and 2) the pixel-wise probability of HBASE. These layers are co-registered to the same spatial extent at a common 30m spatial resolution. The spatial extent covers the entire globe except Antarctica and some small islands. This dataset is one of the first global, 30m datasets of urban extent to be derived from the GLS data for 2010 and is a companion dataset to the Global Man-made Impervious Surface (GMIS) dataset. The HBASE mask was created for post-processing of the GMIS dataset, but can also be utilized by users needing a binary map. The dataset is expected to have a rather broad spectrum of users, from those wishing to examine/study the fine details of urban land cover over the globe at full 30m resolution to global modelers trying to understand the climate/environmental impacts of man-made surfaces at continental to global scales. For example, the data are applicable to local modeling studies of urban impacts on the energy, water, and carbon cycles, as well as analyses at the individual country level.

Product Summary

Platforms
MODELS ,
LANDSAT
Instruments
Computer ,
TM ,
ETM+
Spatial Extent

N: 82.788372 S: -58.349606 E: 180 W: -180

Location
GLOBAL ,
OCEANIA ,
AFGHANISTAN ,
AFRICA ,
ALAND ISLANDS ,
ALBANIA ,
ANDORRA ,
ARMENIA ,
ASIA ,
AUSTRALIA ,
AZERBAIJAN ,
BAHRAIN ,
BANGLADESH ,
BHUTAN ,
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ,
BOTSWANA ,
CAMBODIA ,
CROATIA ,
DENMARK ,
ESTONIA ,
EUROPE ,
FINLAND ,
GEORGIA ,
GIBRALTAR ,
GREECE ,
HONG KONG ,
ICELAND ,
INDIA ,
IRAN ,
IRAQ ,
IRELAND ,
ISRAEL ,
ITALY ,
JORDAN ,
KAZAKHSTAN ,
KOSOVO ,
KUWAIT ,
KYRGYZSTAN ,
LATVIA ,
LEBANON ,
LESOTHO ,
LITHUANIA ,
MACAU ,
MIDDLE EAST ,
MONTENEGRO ,
NAMIBIA ,
NEPAL ,
NEW ZEALAND ,
NORTH AMERICA ,
NORTH MACEDONIA ,
NORWAY ,
OMAN ,
PAKISTAN ,
PALESTINE ,
QATAR ,
SAN MARINO ,
SAUDI ARABIA ,
SERBIA ,
SLOVENIA ,
SOUTH AFRICA ,
SOUTH AFRICA ,
SOUTH AMERICA ,
SPAIN ,
SWEDEN ,
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC ,
TAJIKISTAN ,
THAILAND ,
TURKEY ,
TURKMENISTAN ,
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ,
UNITED KINGDOM ,
UZBEKISTAN ,
VATICAN CITY ,
VIETNAM ,
YEMEN ,
AMERICAN SAMOA ,
ANGUILLA ,
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ,
ARUBA ,
BAHAMAS ,
BARBADOS ,
BERMUDA ,
BONAIRE ,
BRUNEI ,
CAPE VERDE ,
CARIBBEAN ,
CAYMAN ISLANDS ,
COMOROS ,
COOK ISLANDS ,
CUBA ,
CURACAO ,
CYPRUS ,
DOMINICA ,
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ,
FAEROE ISLANDS ,
FALKLAND ISLANDS ,
FIJI ,
FRENCH POLYNESIA ,
GRENADA ,
GUADELOUPE ,
GUAM ,
HAITI ,
INDONESIA ,
ISLE OF MAN ,
JAMAICA ,
KIRIBATI ,
MADAGASCAR ,
MALAYSIA ,
MALDIVES ,
MALTA ,
MARSHALL ISLANDS ,
MARTINIQUE ,
MAURITIUS ,
MAYOTTE ,
MICRONESIA ,
MONTSERRAT ,
NAURU ,
NEW CALEDONIA ,
NIUE ,
NORFOLK ISLAND ,
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS ,
PALAU ,
PAPUA NEW GUINEA ,
PHILIPPINES ,
PITCAIRN ISLANDS ,
PUERTO RICO ,
REUNION ,
SABA ,
SAMOA ,
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE ,
SEYCHELLES ,
SINGAPORE ,
SOLOMON ISLANDS ,
SRI LANKA ,
ST BARTHELEMY ,
ST EUSTATIUS ,
ST HELENA ,
ST KITTS AND NEVIS ,
ST LUCIA ,
ST MAARTEN ,
ST MARTIN ,
ST PIERRE AND MIQUELON ,
ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES ,
SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN ,
TOKELAU ,
TONGA ,
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO ,
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS ,
TUVALU ,
VANUATU ,
WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2010-01-01 to 2010-12-31
Data Partner
Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS)
Concept ID
C3550193482-ESDIS
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
14726
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Human Settlements ,
Urbanization/Urban Sprawl ,
Infrastructure

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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Wang, P., Huang, C., Brown de Colstoun, E. C., Tilton, J. C., & Tan, B. (2017). Global Human Built-up And Settlement Extent (HBASE) Dataset From Landsat (Version 1.00) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4DN434S Date Accessed: 2026-05-13

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Coastal flood impacts and lost ecosystem services along Europe's outermost regions and overseas countries and territories Vousdoukas, Michalis I., Paprotny, Dominik, Mentaschi, Lorenzo, Monioudi, Isavela N., Feyen, Luc Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Impacts of sea level rise and adaptation across Asia and the Pacific Monioudi, Isavela N., Vousdoukas, Michalis I., Giardino, Alessio, Stocchino, Alessandro, Mentaschi, Lorenzo, Feyen, Luc Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Development of an Integrated Natural and Socioeconomic Indicators Monitoring System for Bulacan Using Earth Intelligence Tools School of Graduate Studies, AMA Computer University, Villa Arca Ave., Project 8, Quezon City, Philippines, Pascual, Mark Neil, Leonen, Jeffrey Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure, Poverty Levels, Environmental Health Factors, Population Distribution, Sustainability, Population Estimates, Human Settlements
Large-scale flood risk assessment in data-scarce areas: an application to Central Asia Ceresa, Paola, Bussi, Gianbattista, Denaro, Simona, Coccia, Gabriele, Bazzurro, Paolo, Martina, Mario, Faga, Ettore, Avelar, Carlos, Ordaz, Mario, Huerta, Benjamin, Garay, Osvaldo, Raimbekova, Zhanar, Abdrakhmatov, Kanatbek, Mirzokhonova, Sitora, Ismailov, Vakhitkhan, Belikov, Vladimir Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
River Network Connectivity Reductions Dominate Declines in the Richness Bai, Xiongfeng, Zhang, Peng, Xiong, Lihua, Yang, Zhi, Wang, Siyang, Dong, Xianghong, Sun, Heying, Li, Wenbin, Chang, Jianbo Floods, Food Security, Sustainability, Climate Adaptation, Land Use/Land Cover, Surface Water, Water Resources, Population Size, Anthropogenic/Human Influenced Ecosystems, Population Density, Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure, Cropland
A global atlas of pumped hydro systems that repurpose existing mining sites Weber, Timothy, Stocks, Ryan, Blakers, Andrew, Nadolny, Anna, Cheng, Cheng Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Assessing the influence of landscape conservation and protected areas on social wellbeing using random forest machine learning Fisher, Joshua, Allen, Summer, Yetman, Greg, Pistolesi, Linda Infrastructure, Food Security, Conservation, Environmental Health Factors, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Human Settlements, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
For better or worse: the influence of conflict-driven decentralization on the resilience of urban water supply infrastructure in the Middle East Schillinger, Juliane, Ozerol, Gul Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Smaller cities have large impacts on West Africa's expanding urban system Korah, Andrews, Wimberly, Michael C. Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure, Human Settlements
Geospatial modeling and analysis of groundwater stress-prone areas using GIS-based TOPSIS, VIKOR, and EDAS techniques in Murshidabad district, India Paul, Surjapada, Roy, Debasish Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Nitrogen oxides emissions from selected cities in North America, Europe, and East Asia observed by the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) ... Lonsdale, Chantelle R., Sun, Kang Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing with R de Carvalho Alves, Marcelo, Sanches, Luciana Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Understanding archetypal spatial gradient patterns in urban economic, population and air quality nexus: New insights from a geographic-process perspective Zhang, Ping, Wu, Hao, Zhang, Jun, Sun, Qiangqiang, Ji, Zhengxin, Lin, Xin, Chen, Jiongbin, Sun, Danfeng Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Two decades of nighttime surface urban heat island intensity analysis over nine major populated cities of India and implications for heat stress Jain, Madhavi Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure, Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover
The spatial and temporal influence of infrastructure and road dust on Bergstedt, Helena, Jones, Benjamin M., Walker, Donald, Peirce, Jana, Bartsch, Annett, Pointner, Georg, Kanevskiy, Mikhail, Raynolds, Martha, Buchhorn, Marcel Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
A 30 m resolution dataset of China's urban impervious surface area and green space, 20002018 Kuang, Wenhui, Zhang, Shu, Li, Xiaoyong, Lu, Dengsheng Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Integrating remote sensing and geospatial big data for urban land use Yin, Jiadi, Dong, Jinwei, Hamm, Nicholas A.S., Li, Zhichao, Wang, Jianghao, Xing, Hanfa, Fu, Ping Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Finer-resolution mapping of global land cover: Recent developments, consistency analysis, and prospects Liu, Liangyun, Zhang, Xiao, Gao, Yuan, Chen, Xidong, Shuai, Xie, Mi, Jun Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure, Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland
Global atlas of closed-loop pumped hydro energy storage Stocks, Matthew, Stocks, Ryan, Lu, Bin, Cheng, Cheng, Blakers, Andrew Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure, Lakes/Reservoirs, Land Use/Land Cover, Population Size
Fast Unsupervised Multi-Scale Characterization of Urban Landscapes Based Teillet, Claire, Pillot, Benjamin, Catry, Thibault, Demagistri, Laurent, Lyszczarz, Dominique, Lang, Marc, Couteron, Pierre, Barbier, Nicolas, Adou Kouassi, Arsene, Gunther, Quentin, Dessay, Nadine Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Mapping Global Urban Impervious Surface and Green Space Fractions Using Kuang, Wenhui, Hou, Yali, Dou, Yinyin, Lu, Dengsheng, Yang, Shiqi Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure, Human Settlements
Mapping essential urban land use categories with open big data: Results Chen, Bin, Tu, Ying, Song, Yimeng, Theobald, David M., Zhang, Tao, Ren, Zhehao, Li, Xuecao, Yang, Jun, Wang, Jie, Wang, Xi, Gong, Peng, Bai, Yuqi, Xu, Bing Human Settlements, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure
Characterizing Small-Town Development Using Very High Resolution Imagery Chen, Dong, Loboda, Tatiana V., Silva, Julie A., Tonellato, Maria R. Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure, Human Settlements
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