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Open Buildings

26 Jul 2021 archive 2025-07-28

Building footprints are useful for a range of important applications, from population estimation, urban planning and humanitarian response, to environmental and climate science. This large-scale open dataset contains the outlines of buildings derived from high-resolution satellite imagery in order to support these types of uses. The project being based in Ghana, the current focus is on the continent of Africa.

Source: Google AI

Image credit: Google AI

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

No leaderboard in the archive resolves to this dataset.

Papers archive 2025-07-28

No paper in the archive has a leaderboard row on this dataset; the archive counts 7 papers for it but never published that list.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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License archive 2025-07-28

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-4.0)

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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