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Map visualizes global urban footprint

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A new method helped Scientists to map all human settlements on earth. Image source: Shutterstock (#95710141).

Until recently, spatial information on the world’s urban areas has been unavailable or unreliable. But now, a newly developed method helped Scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to map practically all human activities on earth.

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