GHS-DU-TUC user guide : degree of urbanisation territorial units classifier user guide : version 3. (Englisch)

The Degree of Urbanisation Territorial Units Classifier (GHS-DU-TUC) Tool (- version 3) is an information system developed in the framework of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) to produce the classification of territorial units based on the Degree of Urbanisation and extract related statistics. The GHS-DU-TUC v3 is designed as an operational tool to perform the second stage required to apply the Degree of Urbanisation released as standalone tool and as ArcGIS Toolbox. This tool is conceptualised to be deployed after the application of the GHSL tools GHS-POP2G and GHS-DUG but it accepts in input population grids produced by means of any other procedure respecting the described constrains. This document contains the description of the GHS-DU-TUC Tool use, the rationale for the stage 2 to apply the Degree of Urbanisation (the classification of territorial units) and the comprehensive description of the outputs. The tool is a capacity enhancement asset in the framework of the multi-stakeholder effort for the uptake of the Degree of Urbanisation, the people-based harmonised definition of cities and settlements recommended by the 51st Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission as the method to delineate cities and rural areas for international statistical comparison. The GHS-DU-TUC, as all GHSL Tools, is issued with an end-user licence agreement, included in the download package.