Impervious Area of China
Beijing City Lab Data
Type & Source Impervious‑surface layer generated by mosaicing the China tiles of the FROM‑GLC‑agg land‑cover product. Tiles were downloaded in December 2013 from the Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University ( https://data.ess.tsinghua.edu.cn/ ) and processed by the BCL team under a distribution permit from CESS. Spatial Coverage Entire mainland China. Notes Only the impervious‑surface class is included in the BCL release; other FROM‑GLC categories were omitted. Access & Documentation http://www.geosimulation.cn/GlobalUrbanLand.html Citation Gong, P., et al. (2013). Finer resolution observation and mon...
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Type & Source
Impervious‑surface layer generated by mosaicing the China tiles of the FROM‑GLC‑agg land‑cover product. Tiles were downloaded in December 2013 from the Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University (https://data.ess.tsinghua.edu.cn/) and processed by the BCL team under a distribution permit from CESS.
Spatial Coverage
Entire mainland China.
Notes
Only the impervious‑surface class is included in the BCL release; other FROM‑GLC categories were omitted.
Access & Documentation
http://www.geosimulation.cn/GlobalUrbanLand.html
Citation
Gong, P., et al. (2013). Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: First mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34(7), 2607–2654. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2012.748992.
