{"id":620326,"date":"2019-06-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=620326"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:00:00","slug":"mapping-our-global-human-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=620326","title":{"rendered":"Mapping our global human footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WSF-2015_built-up_areas_in_Abidjan_small.gif\" width=\"1246\" height=\"701\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe number of people flocking to cities in search of employment and better prospects is growing at an unprecedented rate. By 2050, the global population is estimated to reach nine billion, 70% of which will be living in urban areas. The <a href=\"https:\/\/urban-tep.eu\/puma\/tool\/?id=574795484&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">World Settlement Footprint 2015<\/a> (WSF-2015) is the first map, using mass collections of radar and optical satellite imagery, to provide a global overview of the world\u2019s human settlements.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Mapping_our_global_human_footprint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mapping our global human footprint<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people flocking to cities in search of employment and better prospects is growing at an unprecedented rate. By 2050, the global population is estimated to reach nine&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":620327,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/620327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}