{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["026:00"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Earthdata Forum", "hasEmail": "mailto:earthdata-support@nasa.gov"}, "description": "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.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "conformsTo": "http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmi", "description": "The metadata's original source.", "downloadURL": "https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3550190429-ESDIS.iso19115", "format": "ISO", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "downloadURL": "https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C3550190429-ESDIS", "format": "BIN", "mediaType": "application/octet-stream"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "downloadURL": "https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/docs-repo/ghsl-population-built-up-estimates-degree-urban-smod-documentation.pdf", "format": "PDF", "mediaType": "application/pdf"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "downloadURL": "https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/docs-repo/ghsl-population-built-up-estimates-degree-urban-smod-readme.txt", "format": "TXT", "mediaType": "text/plain"}], "identifier": "10.7927/h4154f0w", "keyword": ["earth-science-human-settlements-human-dimensions-urban-areas", "earth-science-population-human-dimensions"], "license": "https://www.usa.gov/government-works", "modified": "2026-06-22", "programCode": ["026:000"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "ESDIS"}, "spatial": "[\"CARTESIAN\", [{\"WestBoundingCoordinate\": -180, \"NorthBoundingCoordinate\": 90, \"EastBoundingCoordinate\": 180, \"SouthBoundingCoordinate\": -90}]]", "temporal": "1975-01-01/1990-01-01", "theme": ["Earth Science"], "title": "Global Human Settlement Layer: Population and Built-Up Estimates, and Degree of Urbanization Settlement Model Grid"}