Fig. 1: Characteristics of built structures distinguished in our study.
From: Unveiling patterns in human dominated landscapes through mapping the mass of US built structures
We used satellite and crowdsourced geodata to map dimensions (area, height, and volume) of built structures and their categorical attributes (building types, mobility infrastructure classes) for each 10 × 10 m pixel in the entire Conterminous US. Definitions for employed categories are summarized in Supplementary Tables 4, 10, and 13. Literature-based factors of mass per m2 or m3 were used to compute the mass of 14 materials in each structure category considering regionalized construction designs, hence generating a spatially explicit multidimensional description of built structures.
