This is the code repository to create the scientific database EUBUCCO (EUropean BUilding stock Characteristics in a Common and Open database for 200+ million individual buildings).
Disclaimer: This repository and the associated database are currently in a beta version (version 0.1). This work is under review with the journal Scientific Data. Some aspects of the code and the data may still contain errors and bugs. Please contact us by email or by creating an issue if you spot any bug or error.
EUBUCCO is a scientific database of individual building footprints for 200+ million buildings across the 27 European Union countries and Switzerland, together with three main attributes – building type, height and construction year – included for respectively 45%, 74%, 24% of the buildings.
EUBUCCO is composed of 50 open government datasets and OpenStreetMap that have been collected, harmonized and partly validated.
EUBUCCO provides the basis for high-resolution urban sustainability studies across scales – continental, comparative or local studies – using a centralized source and is relevant for a variety of use cases, e.g. for energy system analysis or natural hazard risk assessments.
EUBUCCO is currently available under its first, beta version (v0.1), see Releases. The first stable version (v1.0) is planned to be released in early 2023.
This repository contains all the code that was used to create the database. The folder /database contains the main files used in the workflow and the module /eubucco contains the core Python functions. A sub-module ufo-map contain additional functions, for lower level geospatial operations as well as helpers. The folder /tutorials contains a few tutorials, in particular the notebook getting_started.ipynb that shows how to start exploring the data.
The associated data can be found on our website eubucco.com and is referenced on Zenodo
This work is associated to a Data Descriptor paper currently under review with the journal Scientific Data. The manuscript, which provides extensive documentation on the database content and methodology, as well as the source code of the manuscript, including the .tex file, the figures and the files to create them, are available as a submodule eubucco-manuscript.
All the content of this repository is licensed under the MIT license. For license information about the data, please refer to the Zenodo repository.
Citation:
Milojevic-Dupont, Nikola, and Wagner, Nachtigall, Florian, Felix, Hu, Jiawei, Brüser, Geza Boi, Zumwald, Marius, Biljecki, Filip, Heeren, Niko, Kaack, Lynn, Pichler, Peter-Paul, & Creutzig, Felix. (2022). EUBUCCO (v0.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6524780
Bibtex:
@dataset{eubucco_v0.1_2022_dataset,
author = {{Milojevic-Dupont, Nikola and
Wagner, Felix} and
Nachtigall, Florian and
Hu, Jiawei and
Zumwald, Marius and
Brüser, Geza Boi and
Biljecki, Filip and
Heeren, Niko and
Kaack, Lynn and
Pichler, Peter-Paul and
Creutzig, Felix},
title = {{EUBUCCO v0.1}},
month = may,
year = 2022,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {v0.1},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6524780},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6524780}
}
For any questions, contact Nikola Milojevic-Dupont (milojevic@mcc-berlin.net) or Felix Wagner (wagner@mcc-berlin.net).