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The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) is a framework to produce global spatial information on population and on the physical size of settlements on the planet.
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The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) is a framework to produce global spatial information on population and on the physical size of settlements on the planet.
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