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Spatial Thoughts Newsletter · Apr 14, 2025

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Ujaval Gandhi · Spatial Thoughts Newsletter

I spent the last few weeks exploring the recently released Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal V1 from Google. This is a hugely valuable dataset that can help researchers in developing countries get access to high-resolution building heights data. Combining this with other open datasets, you can derive a High-resolution Digital Surface Model (DSM) at 4m spatial resolution across large swaths of the world. You can also extract 2.5D building footprints polygons for each of the years from 2016-2023. Check out the newly published article Extracting Building Heights from Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal Dataset with open-source code for Google Earth Engine (GEE) for extracting this data for your area of interest.

A High-Resolution Digital Surface Model (DSM) created from Google Buildings, Meta Canopy Heights and FABDEM terrain model

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