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Open Buildings Temporal V1
The Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal Dataset contains data about building presence, fractional building counts, and building heights at an effective<sup>1</sup> spatial resolution of 4m (rasters are provided at 0.5m resolution) at an annual cadence from 2016-2023. It is produced from open-source, low-resolution imagery from the [Sentinel-2](https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2) collection. The dataset is available across Africa, South Asia, South-East Asia, Lati
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Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Evidence quality: 31
Listed in gee public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Resolution registry
- 4 m
Evidence
- ee.ImageCollection('GOOGLE/Research/open-buildings-temporal/v1')
- https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/GOOGLE_Research_open-buildings-temporal_v1
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