Fine-grained, spatiotemporal datasets measuring 200 years of land development in the United States

Uhl, Johannes H.; Leyk, Stefan; McShane, Caitlin M.; Braswell, Anna E.; Connor, Dylan S.; Balk, Deborah

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-119-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-119-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-119-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

Data description paper

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27 Jan 2021

Data description paper |

| 27 Jan 2021

Fine-grained, spatiotemporal datasets measuring 200 years of land development in the United States

Johannes H. Uhl, Stefan Leyk, Caitlin M. McShane, Anna E. Braswell, Dylan S. Connor, and Deborah Balk

Data sets

Historical built-up property records (BUPR) - gridded surfaces for the U.S. from 1810 to 2015 Johannes H. Uhl and Stefan Leyk https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YSWMDR

Historical built-up property locations (BUPL) - gridded surfaces for the U.S. from 1810 to 2015 Johannes H. Uhl and Stefan Leyk https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SJ213V

Historical built-up areas (BUA) - gridded surfaces for the U.S. from 1810 to 2015 Johannes H. Uhl and Stefan Leyk https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/J6CYUJ

Uncertainty surfaces accompanying the BUPR, BUPL, and BUA gridded surface series Johannes H. Uhl and Stefan Leyk https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T8H5KF

Video supplement

Animating 200 years of urban spatial development in 35 U.S. cities Johannes H. Uhl https://doi.org/10.5446/48115

Short summary

Fine-grained geospatial data on the spatial distribution of human settlements are scarce prior to the era of remote-sensing-based Earth observation. In this paper, we present datasets derived from a large, novel building stock database, enabling the spatially explicit analysis of 200 years of land development in the United States at an unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. These datasets greatly facilitate long-term studies of socio-environmental systems in the conterminous USA.