Mapping three decades of urban growth in China:  a 30&thinsp;m annual building height dataset (1990–2019)

Zhang, Yizhi; Wang, Yi; Dong, Quanhua; Chen, Xiao-Jian; Zhang, Fan; Li, Xuecao; Liu, Yu

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Mapping three decades of urban growth in China: a 30 m annual building height dataset (1990–2019)

Yizhi Zhang, Yi Wang, Quanhua Dong, Xiao-Jian Chen, Fan Zhang, Xuecao Li, and Yu Liu

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