The Global Urban Footprint

The High German Aerospace Center (DLR) has released an interactive globe which visualizes human settlements around the world. The Global Urban Footprint map shows the global distribution of the human population on a custom made WebGL globe.

The Global Urban Footprint globe was made past times analyzing satellite imagery of the Earth. The globe uses exclusively 3 colors: dark for urban areas, white for state surfaces in addition to grey for water. The number is that urban settlements are much to a greater extent than visible on the interactive globe.

It is possible to zoom inwards on the map to some extent past times using your mouse's scroll wheel. However the map doesn't bring a dandy score of resolution. You tin thought higher resolution images of a number of global cities on the Global Urban Footprint about page.