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GHSL global building height estimates (GHS-BUILT-H)

GHS-BUILT-H depicts the depicts the global spatial distribution of building heights extracted from global digital elevation models (DEMs) and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. The datasets consist of two products: 1) Average of the Net Building Height (ANBH), representing the mean building height per grid cell, in meters, 2) Average of the Gross Building Height (AGBH), in cubic meters per surface unit. The input DEMs are the ALOS World 3D - 30m (2006-2011) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 30

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Licence: GHSL data are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Evidence quality: 32.5

Listed in aws-odr public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

arn:aws:s3:::jrc-ghsl/ghs-built-h-agbh, arn:aws:s3:::jrc-ghsl/ghs-built-h-anbh, arn:aws:sns:eu-central-1:291461994469:jrc-ghsl-object_created
https://registry.opendata.aws/ghs-built-h/

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