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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | https://data.london.gov.uk/download/green-and-blue-cover/7056efeb-d34a-4394-9d62-2f335edeacec/green_cover_ward_summary_0.05.xlsx | ||
| 54 | https://data.london.gov.uk/download/green-and-blue-cover/fdff7445-bb87-4584-ada8-d527e7fcec97/green_cover_borough_summary_0.05.xlsx | ||
| 33 | https://data.london.gov.uk/download/green-and-blue-cover/bb6dd6a6-08a3-44ba-9167-53d5566aace5/how-green-is-london-report-and-methodology-2019.pdf | ||
| 57 | https://data.london.gov.uk/download/green-and-blue-cover/828fdf21-84c8-43ff-b962-5384b596a0c6/tile_grid_467_bng_GLA.zip | ||
| 57 | https://data.london.gov.uk/download/green-and-blue-cover/ed184830-efa2-42b7-b93b-a50afbf0d27e/blueandgreen_ndvi0.1.zip | ||
| 57 | https://data.london.gov.uk/download/green-and-blue-cover/76a41ea0-12be-45fd-8de8-bbc44695c01c/blueandgreen_ndvi0.05.zip | ||
| 0 | https://data.london.gov.uk/download/green-and-blue-cover/d7126a31-4320-4343-bb04-b9722b897ad9 | ||
| 0 | https://maps.london.gov.uk/green-cover |