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uMORPH: Global LOD1 Buildings and 100-meter Urban Canopy Parameters Code

  • 1. ROR icon New York University
  • 2. ROR icon George Mason University

Description

This record contains the code pipelines for processing the uMORPH Global Urban Canopy Parameters dataset in a high-performance computing environment. uMORPH is a global dataset of 7 urban canopy parameters (UCPs) comprising 24 gridded layers at 100 m resolution, derived from ~2.38 billion building footprints with heights. It covers 98.4% of cities above 50,000 population and 94.5% of global population. For more information and to access the dataset, please see https://ultraviolet.library.nyu.edu/uploads/mrt3g-htt34

Other

We recommend accessing this dataset through the dedicated Globus endpoint here: https://app.globus.org/file-manager?origin_id=c43d41ac-d286-4ac4-9318-3d65f3d9b855&origin_path=%2Fmrt3g-htt34-umorph%2F. API access to Globus is also available.

Users who are interested in locating tiles for specific cities/locations can find an index with direct links to files at https://umorph.urbansystemslab.com/

For users who wish to download data directly from UltraViolet, we recommend using the API. LOD1_building_footprints_heights_asia.zip is only available via AP

Files

README.md

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Additional details

Related works

Is identical to
Software: https://github.com/UrbanSystemsLab/uMORPH (URL)
Is supplement to
Dataset: 10.58153/mrt3g-htt34 (DOI)

Funding

Google (United States)
ClimateIQ TF2307-114864