Urban Canopy Parameters
7 urban canopy parameters (24 gridded layers in total) derived from LOD1 building footprints and heights. Distributed as 100-meter global Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (download per layer) — and as 100-meter WRF/WPS geogrid binaries (download per continent).
Sizes are archived. Unarchived sized may be substantially larger.
View metadata on Globus →| # | Layers (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs) | Unit | UCM Schemes | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Mean Building Height average height of buildings within a grid cell | meter | SLUCM | 4.6 GB |  |
| 02 | Area-Weighted Mean Building Height footprint-area-weighted average height of buildings within a grid cell | meter | SLUCM, BEP, BEP + BEM | 4.6 GB | |
| 03 | Standard Deviation of Building Height standard deviation of building heights within a grid cell | meter | SLUCM | 4.5 GB | |
| 04 | Plan Area Fraction fraction of a grid cell covered by building footprints | dimensionless [0, 1] | SLUCM, BEP, BEP + BEM | 5.1 GB | |
| 05 | Building Surface-to-Plan Area Ratio ratio of building surface area to plan area within a grid cell | dimensionless | SLUCM, BEP, BEP + BEM | 5.1 GB | |
| 06 | Frontal Area Index (4 layers; 0,45,90,135 degrees) frontal area of buildings facing each of four wind directions | dimensionless | SLUCM | 21 GB | |
| 07 | Building Height Distribution (15 layers; 5 m bins) fraction of buildings in each 5 m height bin (0–75 m) | dimensionless fraction [0, 1] | BEP, BEP + BEM | 23 GB | |
