A comparative assessment of global building and settlement datasets across geographic and settlement contexts

arXiv:2609.28154 · cs.CV, eess.IV · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, eess.IV

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Code: https://github.com/GFDRR/urban_validation

Terminology

• Accuracy — 44× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• F1 Score — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Global Building Atlas — 8× in this paper
• Provenance — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generative AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Google Open Buildings Temporal — 3× in this paper
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Evaluating the Quality of Open Building Datasets for Mapping Urban Inequality: A Comparative Analysis Across 5 Cities
• Continental-Scale Building Detection from High Resolution Satellite Imagery
• Global Building Area Estimation Products: How Accurate Are They?
• High-Resolution Building and Road Detection from Sentinel-2
• TEMPO: Global Temporal Building Density and Height Estimation from Satellite Imagery
• The Multi-Temporal Urban Development SpaceNet Dataset

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