How Light-Green Is Your Town?

The Berliner Morgenpost has analysed hundreds of satellite images inward gild to produce upward one's hear Germany's greenest towns. These are Germany's Greenest Towns ranks Germany's 79 major cities inward gild of how much vegetation they have.

Most previous analysis of Germany's greenest cities has been determined past times the amount of world parks together with world recreational areas a urban marrow has, The Berliner Morgenpost has used detailed analysis of satellite imagery to furnish a to a greater extent than accurate moving-picture exhibit of the amount of vegetation inward each city. Their analysis includes other natural areas, such every bit planted roofs, somebody gardens, urban trees together with somebody backyards.

To analyse the satellite imagery the Berliner Morgenpost developed this EarthEngine Script. The script examines Landsat 5, Landsat seven together with Landsat eight satellite images, alongside less than 5 percent cloud cover, taken inward the summertime months of June together with July 2005-2015. Using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index the Berliner Morgenpost was able to produce upward one's hear how much greenery was acquaint inward each xxx past times xxx meter foursquare inward the imagery.

To produce the interactive map it appears that the Berliner Morgenpost has created a estrus map of the country, where the percent of greenery determined past times the NDVI analysis is represented on the map alongside a greenish color ramp. The map tiles were created inward Tilemill together with made into an interactive map using the Leaflet mapping platform.