tnc-ny-science / nyc_greenroofmapping

Code associated with mapping green roofs in NYC and summarizing the data

NYC_GreenRoofMapping

This folder contains code and data associated with mapping green roofs in New York City, based on aggregating data from multiple sources, and classification of aerial imagery. The most current data are available in this folder, where you will also find associated metadata in the README.md file. This repository is also associated with a dataset publication on Zenodo avaialble at https://zenodo.org/record/1469674, and data should be referenced per the citation given below.

Click here to see a simple webmap of the data.

Contributors to this work are Michael Treglia and Emily Maxwell with The Nature Conservancy, Timon McPhearson of The Urban Systems Lab at The New School, Eric Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Greg Yetman of CIESIN at Columbia University.

Usage Notes

The Nature Conservancy and co-authors of this work derived this data set from publicly available data sources. If using this dataset in any work, it should be referenced as follows:

Treglia, Michael L., McPhearson, Timon, Sanderson, Eric W., Yetman, Greg, & Maxwell, Emily Nobel. (2018). Green Roofs Footprints for New York City, Assembled from Available Data and Remote Sensing (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1469674

The Nature Conservancy and co-authors of this work shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. Any sale, distribution, loan, or offering for use of these digital data, in whole or in part, is prohibited without the approval of The Nature Conservancy and co-authors. The use of these data to produce other GIS products and services with the intent to sell for a profit is prohibited without the written consent of The Nature Conservancy and co-authors. All parties receiving these data must be informed of these restrictions. Authors of this work shall be acknowledged as data contributors to any reports or other products derived from these data.

Unless otherwise noted, code in this repository is made available under GNU General Public License (GPL) v3.