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'.

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Source https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/london-green-and-blue-cover-emqzm
Last Updated November 5, 2025, 12:38 (UTC)
Created October 22, 2025, 12:05 (UTC)
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