This dataset consists of very-high resolution (VHR) urban land cover maps for two African cities, Mekelle, Ethiopia and Polokwane, South Africa for 2020. Maps were generated from Planet SuperDove satellite imagery at 3.125-m spatial resolution, and Worldview-3 satellite imagery at two spatial resolutions, 2 m for multispectral imagery and 0.5-m spatial resolution for pansharpened imagery. An object-based image classification approach was used to produce a multi-class land cover product for each image source.
Cardenas-ritzert, O.S.E., S. Shah Heydari, D.T. Rode, and J. Vogeler. 2025. Urban Land Cover Maps for Mekelle, Ethiopia, and Polokwane, South Africa, 2020. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2413
Priniciple Investigator: Jody C. Vogeler
Project Information
| PROJECT NAME | Principal Investigator | INSTITUTION |
|---|---|---|
| The last urban frontier: Assessing drivers of urbanization and tradeoffs among social and ecosystem services associated with LCLUC in Africa | Jody C. Vogeler | Colorado State University |