Coming Soon: Comparing greenspace and urban forest cover for two Toronto neighborhoods

This project is a work in progress. While the code is available, it is not fully developed or properly annotated yet, so proceed at your own risk! These analyses are meant to be a simple, beginner-friendly introduction to working with remote sensing data (satellite imagery and LiDAR) and open source data portals, and may be used as training material in the future. Preliminary results available on ArcGIS Online here

I found the inspiration for this project when apartment hunting in downtown Toronto. I was deciding between places in two nearby neighborhoods, and neighborhood greenspace was an important factor to consider. In this project, I compare greenspace and urban forest cover between two neighborhoods. I make some simplified calculations estimating green space using NDVI from remote sensing data, and I estimate summer tree/leaf cover area using the tree point data from the open data portal from the city of Toronto. Click here to check out my progress on Github.