Division of Spatial Information Science
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Tsukuba
Megacities project @ SIS Lab. is established to assist in overcoming the challenges of the urban planning and management challenges (e.g., limited availability of data resources, effective tools, and proficiency in data analysis) in developing countries of Asia and Africa.
The data available for download include the LUC, LUCC, ECI, LST and predicted future LUC maps for each city which is provided in a zip file.
For the detail information of the LUC maps, you can read the PDF documentation.
Recommended MEGA-WEB Citation:
Gong, H.; Simwanda, M.; Murayama, Y.
An Internet-Based GIS Platform Providing Data for Visualization and Spatial Analysis of Urbanization in Major Asian and African Cities.
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2017, 6(8), 257.
Recommended Data Explanation Citation:
Murayama Y, Estoque RC, Hou H, Gong H, Simwanda M, Subasinghe H, and Zhang X. (2016). Visualization of
land-use/land-cover changes in major Asian and African cities. Annual Report on the Multi Use Social and
Economic Data Bank, p. 95. Website: http://giswin.geo.tsukuba.ac.jp/mega-cities/.
About Zip File:
The data is in Geo Tagged Image File (GeoTIFF) format which is widely supported by most GIS software.