Global impervious surfaces

land cover

Annual time-series of impervious surfaces

Details

This dataset was derived thorugh the classification of dense satellite time series obtained with multiple Landsat sensors. It provides data on the first year an impervious pixel was observed starting from 1985. The original dataset, with a spatial resolution of 30-m, was then split into yearly layers and aggreated into 300-m layers with yearly per-pixel percentages.

Subdatasets

urbanCover | Density of impervious surfaces (%)
content description
value_range 0…100

masDMT query

# data call without specifying subdataset and resolution
list_data("GAIA")

# data call for specific subdataset 
list_data("GAIA/urbanCover")

# data call to subdataset with a specific resolution
list_data("GAIA/urbanCover/300m")

References

(bibtex)

[1] Gong, Li, Wang, Bai, Chen, Hu, Liu, Xu, Yang, Zhang, and Zhou (2020)