Dataset

London Green and Blue Cover

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'.

Data and Resources

tile_grid_467_bng_GLA.zipZIP

ESRI shapefile containing the 2km by 2km tile grid, there are 467 that...
https://apps.london.gov.uk/green-cover/

Visit the Green cover map of London.
blueandgreen_ndvi0.1.zipZIP

A zipped folder containing 467 ESRI shapefile tiles (2km by 2km) representing...
blueandgreen_ndvi0.05.zipZIP

A zipped folder containing 467 ESRI shapefile tiles (2km by 2km) representing...
how-green-is-london-report-and-methodology-2019.pdfPDF

A report describing the methodology and datasets used to carry out the green...
green_cover_ward_summary_0.05.xlsxXLSX

2018 London ward green and blue cover summary data.
green_cover_borough_summary_0.05.xlsxXLSX

2018 london borough green and blue cover summary data.

Additional Info

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Source	https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/green-and-blue-cover
Last Updated	June 7, 2024, 18:03 (UTC)
Created	March 4, 2019, 14:13 (UTC)