| Note |
The European Settlement Map is a spatial raster dataset that is mapping human settlements in Europe based on Copernicus Very High Resolution optical coverage (Pleiades, Deimos-02, WorldView-2, WorldView-3, GeoEye-01 and Spot 6/7) ranging from 2014 to 2016. It follows-up on the previous ESM_2012 Release 2015 derived from 2.5 m resolution SPOT-5/6 images acquired in the context of the pan-European GMES/Copernicus dataset for the reference year 2012.The latest version ESM_2015 Release 2019 is published in two layers: Built-up areas at a spatial resolution of 2 meters, and Classification of the built-up areas into residential and non-residential at a spatial resolution of 10 meters. |