Human settlement

In geography, statistics in addition to archaeology, the settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live. The complexity of a settlement can range from a small number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. Settlements may increase hamlets, villages, towns together with cities. A settlement may remain to invited historical properties such as the date or era in which it was number one settled, or number one settled by particular people.

In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, settlements are "a city, town, village or other agglomeration of buildings where people symbolize and work".

A settlement conventionally includes its constructed facilities such(a) as roads, enclosures, field systems, boundary banks and ditches, ponds, parks and woods, wind and water mills, manor houses, moats and churches.

Geospatial modeling

In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, settlements are "a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people survive and work".

The Global Human Settlement Layer GHSL utility example produces global spatial information about the human presence on the planet over time. This in the make-up of built up maps, population density maps and settlement maps. This information is generated with evidence-based analytics and cognition using new spatial data mining technologies. The framework uses heterogeneous data including global archives of fine-scale satellite imagery, census data, and volunteered geographic information. The data is processed fully automatically and generates analytics and cognition reporting objectively and systematically approximately the presence of population and built-up infrastructures. The GHSL operates in an open and free data and methods access policy open input, open method, open output.