green_city

Green City Script

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General description of the script

Uses NDVI [1] to color Sentinel-2 images and create awareness of green areas in cities around the World.

Author of the script

Carlos Bentes

Description of representative images

Visualization of Tallinn with the Green City script.

Visualization of Paris with the Green City script.

Visualization of Beijing with the Green City script.

References

[1] Normalized difference vegetation index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_difference_vegetation_index

Credits

Y. Zha, J. Gao & S. Ni (2003) Use of normalized difference built-up index in automatically mapping urban areas from TM imagery, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24:3, 583-594, DOI: 10.1080/01431160304987