Description
The GLA have produced a dataset that provides a more accurate estimate of the extent of the London’s green infrastructure - the city’s parks, gardens, trees, green spaces, rivers and wetlands, and features such as green roofs.
The green cover layer was created by combining classified near-infrared aerial imagery (NDVI) with land use datasets and resulted in a green cover estimate for London of between 48-51 percent. The baseline is presented as a range to account for variations in the analysis of aerial imagery. The methodology is set out in the report below and a web map created to visualise the data.
The final green cover layer is available to download in a geospatial format (shape files).
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2019.
Contains Verisk Analytics GeoInformation Group UKMap data.
NOTE: The data is based on Ordnance Survey mapping and the data is published under Ordnance Survey's 'presumption to publish'.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| tile_grid_467_bng_GLA.zip | ZIP | Open resource | |
| blueandgreen_ndvi0.05.zip | ZIP | Open resource | |
| blueandgreen_ndvi0.1.zip | ZIP | Open resource | |
| how-green-is-london-report-and-methodology-2019.pdf | Open resource | ||
| green_cover_ward_summary_0.05.xlsx | Unknown | Open resource | |
| green_cover_borough_summary_0.05.xlsx | Unknown | Open resource | |
| https://apps.london.gov.uk/green-cover/ | HTML | Open resource |