Geoprocess of geospatial urban data in Tallinn, Estonia

Abstract

The new digital era brings increasingly massive and complex interdisciplinary projects in various fields. At the same time, the availability of an accurate and reliable database plays a crucial role in achieving project goals. Meanwhile, urban projects and issues usually need to be analyzed to support the objectives of sustainable development of the built environment. Furthermore, the volume and variety of spatial data used to describe urban elements and phenomena have grown exponentially in recent decades. The scope of this dataset is to process spatial data to provide input data for the urban heat island (UHI) assessment project in Tallinn, Estonia. The dataset builds the generative, predictive, and explainable machine learning UHI model. The dataset presented here consists of multi-scale urban data. It provides essential baseline information for (i) urban planners, researchers, and practitioners to incorporate urban data in their research activities, (ii) architects and urban planners to improve the features of buildings and the city, considering urban data and the UHI effect, (iii) stakeholders, policymakers and administration in cities implementing built environment projects, and supporting urban sustainability goals. The dataset is available for download as supplementary material to this article.

Keywords

• Urban data acquisition
• Urban analysis
• Urban Heat Island (UHI)
• Ascending hierarchical grid system
• Urban heterogeneity