GHSL_tiles

The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) divides the world into different rectangular areas called "tiles". These tiles can be used to download the GHSL products from the website (see <a href="https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download.php">GHSL Download page</a>).
The dataset <code>GHSL_tiles</code> contains the geometry and metadata of all valid tiles.

datasets

Enables the construction of flexible urban delineations that
can be tailored to specific applications or research questions, see Van
Migerode et al. (2024) <DOI:10.1177/23998083241262545> and Van Migerode
et al. (2025) <DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15173220>.
Originally developed to flexibly reconstruct the Degree of
Urbanisation classification of cities,
towns and rural areas developed by Dijkstra et al.
(2021) <DOI:10.1016/j.jue.2020.103312>. Now it also support a broader
range of delineation approaches, using multiple datasets – including
population, built-up area, and night-time light grids – and different
thresholding methods.

Céline Van Migerode

flexurba

Construct Flexible Urban Delineations

Ate Poorthuis

Ben Derudder

KU Leuven 

FWO 

GHSL_tiles function

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<h3><code>GHSL_tiles</code></h3>
A dataframe with 375 rows and 6 columns<dl>
<dt>tile_id</dt>
<dd>id of the tile</dd><dt>left, top, right, bottom</dt>
<dd>The coordinates of the bounding box of the tile (in Mollweide, EPSG: 54009)</dd><dt>geometry</dt>
<dd><code>sfc_POLYGON</code> geometry of the tile</dd>
</dl></div>

Format

The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) divides the world into different rectangular areas called "tiles". These tiles can be used to download the GHSL products from the website (see <a href='https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download.php'>GHSL Download page</a>).
The dataset <code>GHSL_tiles</code> contains the geometry and metadata of all valid tiles.

A dataframe with existing GHSL tiles — GHSL_tiles

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<h3><code>GHSL_tiles</code></h3>


A dataframe with 375 rows and 6 columns<dl>
<dt>tile_id</dt>
<dd>id of the tile</dd>

<dt>left, top, right, bottom</dt>
<dd>The coordinates of the bounding box of the tile (in Mollweide, EPSG: 54009)</dd>

<dt>geometry</dt>
<dd><code>sfc_POLYGON</code> geometry of the tile</dd>


</dl>

</div>

GHSL_tiles: A dataframe with existing GHSL tiles

Description

Usage

Arguments

Format

`GHSL_tiles`

Details