Pop centers

Population Centers - JRC

Layer title: Population centers dataset from GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer (JRC-EU)
Layer name: pop_centers.gpkg
Sub-layers: germany, denmark, poland, lithuania, latvia, estonia, finland, sweden.
Description: Vector polygon dataset containing population centers from the European Commission and Joint Research Center (JRC)

based on GHS-UCDB R2019A and GHSL 1km grids.

Format: GeoPackage (gpkg)
Version: 1.4.0
Geographical extent (xmin,ymin : xmax:ymax): 5.9958402910000643,47.5506222487093950 : 27.7349598787954932,65.0586221301483931
Temporal extent: 01/01/1975-30/12/2018 (time-period)
CRS: WGS84 (epsg:4326)
Encoding: UTF-8
Scale/Denominator: None
Resolution: 1km vector grids
Topic category: Utilities communication
Keywords: infrastructure, electricity, plant
List of input datasets: None
Attributes:

[area]

Data type: Real

Description: Polygon area of the population center in square kilometers (km2).

[name]

Data type: String (50)

Description: Geographical name of the population center / city.
Date: 2019 (published) & 2022-06-24 (modified).
Quality/Lineage: The data has been compared clipped with the partner countries of HyTruck and attributes have been cleaned.
License: No limitations.
Citation: Florczyk, Aneta; Corbane, Christina; Schiavina, Marcello; Pesaresi, Martino; Maffenini, Luca; Melchiorri, Michele;

Politis, Panagiotis; Sabo, Filip; Freire, Sergio; Ehrlich, Daniele; Kemper, Thomas; Tommasi, Pierpaolo; Airaghi, Donato;

Zanchetta, Luigi (2019): GHS-UCDB R2019A - GHS Urban Centre Database 2015, multitemporal and multidimensional attributes.

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset]

doi: 10.2905/53473144-b88c-44bc-b4a3-4583ed1f547e

PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/53473144-b88c-44bc-b4a3-4583ed1f547e