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Green Roofs

Metadata Updated: November 29, 2021

This dataset and corresponding map provide the location, satellite images and square footage of existing green roofs within the City of Chicago. This information is derived from an analysis of high-spatial resolution (50cm), pan-sharpened, ortho-rectified, 8-band multi-spectral satellite images collected by Digital Globe’s Worldview-2 satellite. The City supplied the consultant with a 2009 City boundary shapefile to determine the required extent of the imagery. Acquisition of three different strips of imagery corresponding to the satellite’s paths was required. These strips of imagery spanned three consecutive months and were collected in August 2010 (90% coverage), September 2010 (5% coverage) and October 2010 (5% coverage). The results of the analysis include overall count of vegetated roofs, their total square footage, and the ratio of required to elective vegetated roofs. A total of 359 vegetated roofs were identified within the City of Chicago. The total square footage of these vegetated roofs was calculated to be approximately 5,469,463 square feet. The ratio of required vegetated roofs to elective vegetative roofs was 297:62 (~5:1). The median size of the vegetated roofs was calculated to be 5,234 square feet.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date November 29, 2021

Metadata Source

Harvested from Chicago JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date November 29, 2021
Publisher data.cityofchicago.org
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.cityofchicago.org/api/views/q3z3-udcz
Data First Published 2012-10-16
Data Last Modified 2012-11-26
Category Environment & Sustainable Development
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofchicago.org/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 3fe7611d-693d-4883-a73f-03162c337044
Harvest Source Id 7590e386-229e-453a-8e53-6f18e200e421
Harvest Source Title Chicago JSON
Homepage URL https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/q3z3-udcz
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash e44d74916d57131d1fb1d7d72962b82251d69790
Source Schema Version 1.1

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