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HISDAC-ES: historical settlement data compilation for Spain (1900–2020)
Johannes H. Uhl
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Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Earth Lab, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Dominic Royé
Climate Research Foundation (FIC), 28013 Madrid, Spain
Keith Burghardt
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA
José A. Aldrey Vázquez
Department of Geography, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15703 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Manuel Borobio Sanchiz
Department of Geography, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15703 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Stefan Leyk
Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Historical, fine-grained geospatial datasets on built-up areas are rarely available, constraining studies of urbanization, settlement evolution, or the dynamics of human–environment interactions to recent decades. In order to provide such historical data, we used publicly available cadastral building data for Spain and created a series of gridded surfaces, measuring age, physical, and land-use-related features of the built environment in Spain and the evolution of settlements from 1900 to 2020.
Historical, fine-grained geospatial datasets on built-up areas are rarely available,...
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