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. An object-based image classification approach was used to produce a multi-class land cover product for each image source. The aim of this work was to support fine scale urban land cover analyses and comparative assessments between different high resolution satellite imagery sources. The data are provided in shapefile format.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field	Value
Maintainer	Earthdata Forum
Last Updated	February 17, 2026, 03:56 (UTC)
Created	July 2, 2025, 23:36 (UTC)
accessLevel	public
bureauCode	{026:00}
catalog_conformsTo	https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
harvest_object_id	a6263053-a060-4033-a5a5-f13ca9e25f63
harvest_source_id	b99e41c6-fe79-4c19-bbc3-9b6c8111bfac
harvest_source_title	Science Discovery Engine
identifier	10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2413
landingPage	https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=VHR_Urban_Land_Cover_Maps_2413&ac=true
modified	2026-02-16
programCode	{026:000}
publisher	ORNL_DAAC
resource-type	Dataset
source_datajson_identifier	true
source_hash	170331d99f7bd86c32e9b0fdbcdac76beb42f5222e24a2b88256ef30eb62944f
source_schema_version	1.1
spatial	[[{"WestBoundingCoordinate":29.3151,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":13.5692,"EastBoundingCoordinate":39.5708,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-23.9404}],"CARTESIAN"]
temporal	2020-01-01/2020-01-01
theme	{"Earth Science"}