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Green areas - Local areas

<p>This dataset provides green areas estimates for OECD Local Areas. </p>

<p>Green areas are defined as the sum of WorldCover land cover classes: trees, shrubland and grassland. The indicators displayed are the share of green areas (in % of the total area) and green areas per capita (in m2 per capita).</p>

<p style="color: #0965c1; font-weight: bold;"> The data is organized at Teritorial Level 2 (TL2). To visualize the data at Local Area level, click on the corresponding TL2 indicator. </p> <b>The full dataset can be downloaded here: <a href="https://stats.oecd.org/wbos/fileview2.aspx?IDFile=406372e4-a2fe-42ae-b1f3-8a5b0b8ec64d">Download Microdata </a></b>

<h3>Data sources and methodology</h3> <p align="justify">Green areas are estimated from the WorldCover global dataset and are defined as the sum of the following land cover classes: trees, shrubland and grassland. The indicators related to green areas are the share of green areas (in % of the total area) and green areas per capita (in m2 per capita). WorldCover is used as it provides harmonised, globally consistent coverage at very fine spatial resolution (10 m), enabling the production of comparable subnational indicators on land cover. To ensure comparability across FUAs, only urban centres as defined by the degree of urbanisation are considered. </p>

<p align="justify">These estimates may differ from official subnational land cover statistics due to differences in methodologies, such as top down remote-sensing based estimation versus bottom up cadastral or administrative data, along with differences in satellite imagery sources, spatial resolution, and model accuracy used to detect and classify land cover types.</p>

<h3>Further information</h3> <ul> <li> <a href=https://localdataportal.oecd.org/>OECD Local Data Portal </a> </li> <li> <a href=https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-regions-and-cities-at-a-glance-2024_f42db3bf-en.html/>OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance </a> </li> </ul> <p align="justify">For questions and/or comments, please email <a href="mailto:CitiesStat@oecd.org">CitiesStat@oecd.org</a>