African Building Electricity Status Products in 2014 and 2020 (BES_Africa_500m_2014/2020)

Dataset Overview

This product is a spatial distribution product for the electricity status of African buildings in 2014/2020, with a spatial resolution of 500 meters. The products include the spatial distribution of major building areas in Africa that are powered or not powered. Timely and accurate access to the spatial distribution and changes in African building electrification conditions helps to solve the problems of missing data and lagging updates in some countries of existing electrification rate data, and helps to improve the monitoring capacity of African building electrification conditions, providing data support for the formulation of targeted electricity supply strategies.. The data products include the spatial distribution of major building areas in Africa with or without electricity.

Dataset Details

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Product Number: XDA19090201_011

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Created By: Mingquan Wu; Xumiao Gao; Shenya Ou; Zheng Niu

Creation Date: 2024-09-27 14:15:46

File Size: 1

Data Format: TIFF

Type Of Data: grid;

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Building Electricity Status

Africa

Remote sensing

Naming Convention

This product uses the WGS84 coordinate system with latitude and longitude projection (EPSG: 4326). Data are stored in GeoTIFF format. A 0 in the grid means not electrified, a 1 means electrified, other values means non building.

Paper Citation

Xumiao Gao, Mingquan Wu, Zheng Niu, Fang Chen, 2022. Global Identification of Unelectrified Built-Up Areas by Remote Sensing.Remote Sensing, 14(8),1941. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14081941.
Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2002. Report on Earth Big data Supporting Sustainable Development Goals. http://www.cbas.ac.cn/en/publications/reports/.

Data Citation

Mingquan Wu. African building electricity status products in 2014 and 2020 (BES_Africa_500m_2014/2020), Beijing: International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), 2023. DOI:10.12237/casearth.64e01520819aec27a589e7c1. 

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Users of this data product shall clearly indicate the source and the authors of "African building electricity status products in 2014 and 2020 (BES_Africa_500m_2014/2020)" in all forms of their research output (including, but not limited to, published and unpublished
papers/reports, theses, monographs, data products, and other academic output) generated by using this data product, and shall cite the corresponding references. The data producers shall not be liable for any loss arising from the use of this data product. The boundaries and masks used in the maps do not represent an official opinion or endorsement by the data producers.