{"url":"/dataset/open-buildings","name":"Open Buildings","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"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.\r\n\r\nSource: [Google AI](https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/)\r\n\r\nImage credit: [Google AI](https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/","introduced_date":"2021-07-26","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":null,"license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-4.0)","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},"modalities":[{"name":"Images","url":"/datasets/modality/images"}],"tasks":[],"languages":[],"variants":["Open Buildings"],"data_loaders":[{"repo":"https://github.com/aadprog/GitExemple","url":"https://github.com/aadprog/GitExemple","frameworks":["tf"]}],"num_papers_in_archive":7,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}