ORNL DAAC Data Release - Urban Land Cover Maps for Mekelle, Ethiopia and Polokwane, South Africa, 2020

by **ORNL - blancohl** » Mon Sep 22, 2025 11:22 am America/New_York

ORNL DAAC recently released a new dataset by Cardenas-Ritzert, O. S. E. et al (2025):

Urban Land Cover Maps for Mekelle, Ethiopia and Polokwane, South Africa, 2020

This dataset consists of very high resolution urban land cover maps for two African cities, Mekelle, Ethiopia and Polokwane, South Africa for 2020. Maps were generated from Planet SuperDove satellite imagery at 3.125-m spatial resolution, and Worldview-3 satellite imagery (Maxar Techologies) at two spatial resolutions, 2 m for multispectral imagery and 0.5-m spatial resolution for pansharpened imagery.

Citation: Cardenas-Ritzert, O. S. E., Shah Heydari, S., Rode, D. T., & Vogeler, J. (2025). Urban Land Cover Maps for Mekelle, Ethiopia and Polokwane, South Africa, 2020 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2413