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GHSL gridded land surface area estimates (GHS-LAND)

GHS-LAND represents the fraction of land surface per grid cell, derived from a Sentinel-2 multispectral data composite from 2018 and OpenStreetMap (OSM) data.

Source details

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

Evidence quality: 22.5

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-land, arn:aws:sns:eu-central-1:291461994469:jrc-ghsl-object_created
• https://registry.opendata.aws/ghs-land/

Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.