{"id":802615,"date":"2026-06-11T02:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802615"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:43:31","slug":"the-world-settlement-footprint-tracker-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802615","title":{"rendered":"The World Settlement Footprint Tracker in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>The\u202fWorld Settlement Footprint (WSF) Tracker is an open-source platform that allows users to explore urban dynamics globally, including in some of the world\u2019s most hazard-prone areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The platform enables users to access and analyse datasets that show how urban areas grow and change over time. Covering the period from July 2016 to January 2026, the dataset provides an unprecedented view of settlement dynamics at 10 m resolution, with updates every six months based on satellite data from the Copernicus Sentinel missions processed within Google Earth Engine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Read full story:<\/b>\u00a0Tracking urban expansion in hazard-prone areas<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The World Settlement Footprint Tracker in action\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mTY-6KC4AGs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2026\/06\/The_World_Settlement_Footprint_Tracker_in_action?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u202fWorld Settlement Footprint (WSF) Tracker is an open-source platform that allows users to explore urban dynamics globally, including in some of the world\u2019s most hazard-prone areas.\u00a0 The platform enables users&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":802616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802615","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=802615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/802616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}