40-year (1984-2024) record of urban land use dynamic changes of China

The dataset captures the spatio-temporal changes in urban land use in Chinese urban areas from 1984 to 2024, spanning a 40-year period, with a uniform spatial resolution (10 meters) and a consistent classification system. Primarily based on Landsat and Sentinel-2 remote sensing imagery, the dataset comprises nine epochs of urban land use maps at 5-year intervals, covering the major urban regions across China. The dataset uses the EPSG:3857 coordinate system.  The land use categories corresponding to dataset numbers 1-9 are: 1: Water bodies, 2: Green spaces, 3: Farmland, 4: Bare land, 5: Residential land, 6: Commercial land, 7: Educational institutions, 8: Industrial land, 9: Transportation land.