Urban Green Areas in Sweden from Satellite Data, 2010 and 2015

Geospatial data on green areas within Swedish urban agglomerations, produced by Statistics Sweden. The dataset defines green areas as contiguous, publicly available spaces of at least 0.5 hectares, excluding arable land but including pasture. It covers two reference years, 2010 for the 37 largest agglomerations and 2015 for all agglomerations, with data last updated in December 2020.

Use Cases

• Assess urban green space equity and accessibility based on the defined contiguous green areas.
• Model land-use change over time based on the 2010 and 2015 reference snapshots.
• Support municipal planning and policy evaluation using the standardized geographic definitions.
• Integrate with other demographic or environmental datasets for spatial analysis based on the agglomeration demarcation.

Strengths

• Provides a standardized, official definition of green areas (contiguous, >=0.5 hectares, publicly available).
• Offers temporal comparison with data for two distinct reference years, 2010 and 2015.
• Derived from authoritative sources, combining satellite data with geographic and register data from Lantmäteriet.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2020-12-01; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Sweden and Lantmäteriet

Collection Method

Demarcation based on satellite data co-processed with geographic and register data.

Time Range

2010 and 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2020-12-01 00:00:00

Geography

Urban agglomerations in Sweden (37 in 2010, all in 2015)