From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first ...

A research team at the Technical University of Munich has achieved an unprecedented scientific accomplishment by developing a ...

A new interactive map, GlobalBuildingAtlas, has been released, featuring 2.75 billion buildings in 3D worldwide. Developed by ...

For most of human history, maps have flattened the world. Cities appeared as outlines, buildings as blocks of colour, and entire neighbourhoods were reduced to symbols on paper or screens. That ...

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Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), led by Professor Xiaoxiang Zhu, have published the ...

Zhu noted that the map introduces a new metric called building volume per capita, a global indicator that measures total building mass per individual and highlights social and economic disparities ...

Researchers mapped exactly where buildings are in the world and how much space they take up. The result is a mind boggling ...

The map is called the GlobalBuildingAtlas, and you can access it online now. Compared to previous databases of this type, ...

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