World Settlement Footprint

Rapid urbanization is increasingly challenging in multiple domains including ecological, economic and social issues. In order to understand interrelationships between human habitat in relation to nature, to assess natural hazards more accurately, and to guide political and economic decisions more precisely, detailed settlement data is an important information base for further decisions and processes. This pilot project contributes novel and unique datasets from the World Settlement Footprint (WSF) suite for the NFDI4Earth community together with the IÖR-Monitor - a provider for data infrastructure and services, on land use and land cover in Germany. In addition to data itself, the data infrastructures are playing an increasingly important role to enable quick and easy access to data and a more efficient way of processing larger data. The objective of this pilot is to integrate these datasets into the NFDI4Earth infrastructure and make them accessible to a broad user community according to the FAIR principles and common standards. Stakeholders are data and infrastructure providers, data and system integrators as well as users from different scientific domains, public authorities, and decision-makers. We expect that the NFDI4Earth will advance and highly benefit from this pilot since the offered datasets are a valuable data source for many research applications. Besides, it can be seen as a precursor for numerous other satellite data applications, services and interoperability approaches to be integrated into NFDI4Earth.