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World Settlement Footprint (WSF®)

The World Settlement Footprint Suite is a collection of novel global datasets designed to provide high-resolution and reliable information on the extent of settlement areas.
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World Settlement Footprint (WSF®)

World Settlement Footprint (WSF®) 2015

The World Settlement Footprint (WSF®) 2015 version 2 (WSF2015 v2) is a 10m resolution binary mask outlining the extent of human settlements globally for the year 2015.


World Settlement Footprint (WSF®) 2019

The World Settlement Footprint (WSF®) 2019 is a 10m resolution binary mask outlining the extent of human settlements globally derived by means of 2019 multitemporal Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) imagery.


World Settlement Footprint (WSF®) 3D

The World Settlement Footprint (WSF®) 3D provides detailed quantification of the average height, total volume, total area and the fraction of buildings at 90 m resolution at a global scale.


World Settlement Footprint (WSF®) Evolution

The World Settlement Footprint (WSF®) Evolution is a 30m resolution dataset outlining the global settlement extent on a yearly basis from 1985 to 2015.