Urban Heat and Tree Canopy Mapping Project
Understanding the extent of tree canopy, green spaces, permeability, building footprints and urban heat across our city helps us plan for a cooler city.
In support of our Green Tunnels and tree canopy targets, we have partnered with the State Government, Resilient East and 18 local government areas across metropolitan Adelaide to map tree canopy, green spaces, built environment, and urban heat. The project involved reprocessing the earlier data captured in 2018 and 2019 to be as comparable as possible with the 2022 data.
With this new data capture, there is now, for the first time, a contiguous dataset across the entire metropolitan Adelaide region that will allow detection of changes in tree canopy extents, green spaces, impermeable surfaces, and building footprints over time.
The data captured in this project will be used by us to identify areas where there are changes in tree canopy, to plan future planting or urban heat mitigation projects, assess the success of previous initiatives, measure against current targets and inform future objectives.
Key Highlights:
- Tree canopy covers about 16.5% of City of Prospect, or approximately 7,806,727 square metres.
- 17% of metropolitan Adelaide is covered in tree canopy.
- Impermeable surfaces, like roads, buildings and other hard surfaces, cover 29% of metropolitan Adelaide.
- Permeable surfaces, like bare earth, grassed areas and vegetation make up 67% (about 3.5% of the study area was water).
Keen to explore the new high-resolution surface temperature data and tree canopy cover for City of Prospect? Want to find the technical reports? Enter your address to see how cool or hot your property is, and how it relates to nearby trees at Urban Heat and Tree Mapping of Adelaide Metropolitan Area
If you would like any more information on the Urban Heat and Tree Mapping Project within City of Prospect, please contact us on (08) 8269 5355 or email admin@prospect.sa.gov.au.