US Building height

The three-dimensional (3-D) information (i.e., heights) of buildings, in addition to their footprints, is of great importance to a variety of urban studies. This dataset is the first estimated height of each individual building (2020) in the conterminous United States (US) using multi-source remotely sensed observations and the Microsoft open-access building footprint data. The derived building height dataset shows a good agreement with the reference building height data in the conterminous US (i.e., R-square = 0.82, RMSE = 3.30m). This dataset is in shapefile format with building height in attribute tables. The three-dimensional building height dataset reveals spatial variations of urban form at a large scale, deepening our understanding of complex interactions between human society and natural systems.