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    Urban Tree Canopy

    Metadata Updated: March 29, 2025

    In preparation for the San Francisco Urban Forest Plan (2013), the Planning Department performed an Urban Tree Canopy (UTC) Analysis using aerial imagery and additional data sets to determine a canopy estimate for the City & County of San Francisco. This analysis estimated San Francisco's tree canopy at 13.7%. This number supersedes a 2007 canopy estimate of 11.9% (USDA Forest Service, 2007). Given the differing methodologies used to arrive at these two numbers it is difficult to draw conclusions regarding urban forest growth or decline based on a comparison. The current analysis establishes a baseline and methodology from which future canopy analyses can be conducted and compared over subsequent years to track San Francisco's urban forest growth or decline over time. See the attachment under About for more on the methodology.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 2, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 29, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from SFO JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 2, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 29, 2025
    Publisher data.sfgov.org
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.sfgov.org/api/views/ni2e-vpbg
    Data First Published 2016-07-12
    Data Last Modified 2024-03-13
    Category Energy and Environment
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.sfgov.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 b4320a29-3c5d-4add-a0e0-fd33ab0ba3bf
    Harvest Source Id 8507fa43-f429-4095-b732-2177330ce485
    Harvest Source Title SFO JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.sfgov.org/d/ni2e-vpbg
    License http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 56dd586832c6fbea3a991e7caa84cfe406fd9344cb7fe4339fbcd73c961a96da
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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