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Democratic Republic of the Congo: Google Building Footprints

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Title
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Google Building Footprints
Description
This large-scale open dataset consists of outlines of buildings derived from high-resolution 50 cm satellite imagery. It contains 1.8B building detections in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, South Asia and Southeast Asia. The inference spanned an area of 58M km² and was carried out during May 2023. Each building in this dataset includes a polygon describing its footprint size on the ground and a confidence score indicating how sure this is a building. There is no information about the type of building, its street address, or any details other than its geometry. The HDX team curates these datasets at [Google Open Buildings (by HDX)](https://data.humdata.org/organization/google-open-buildings) using international boundaries from the UN Geospatial Hub. For more details, see the official website of the [Open Buildings dataset](https://sites.research.google/gr/open-buildings/).
Creator
Google Earth imagery
Publisher
Humanitarian Data Exchange
Temporal Coverage
2023-05-30
Date Issued
2026-02-16
License
https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/
Access Rights
Public
Date Added
March 30, 2026
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2026-03-30.

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  • Citation
    Google Earth imagery (2026). Democratic Republic of the Congo: Google Building Footprints. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/898cb126-80eb-4679-8349-88df5c848322 (dataset)
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