Greater Sydney Region Tree Canopy to Modified Mesh Block 2024/25

The Greater Sydney Region Tree Canopy to Modified Mesh Block 2024/25 dataset provides both an area and percentage of canopy for city blocks and infrastructure corridors in the Greater Sydney Region as of 2024/25.

This dataset includes height stratified vegetation cover (HSVC) divided into height strata of 0-3 m, 3-10 m, 10-15 m and >15 m and canopy data (> 3m).

With this dataset, users can estimate tree canopy for many geographic areas (map scales), from larger local government area and precincts down to modified mesh block, the smallest geographic area defined by the ABS, ensuring compatibility with other ABS datasets.

The geographic extent of this dataset includes the metropolitan urban area and metropolitan rural area of Greater Sydney. 

Having current and accurate estimates of tree canopy supports citizens and governments to reliably identify areas of tree canopy and confidently develop urban greening and heat island mitigation strategies and actions.

This dataset provides the user with information at a known spatial accuracy. The dataset uses vegetation information derived from 0.48m resolution ArborCarbon Pty Ltd height stratified vegetation cover data combined with boundary and land use information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Mesh Block polygon dataset.

In the dataset, “tree canopy” is classified as all vegetation greater than 3m. “All vegetation” includes all vegetation, including trees of all heights. Note: due to data limitations, not all grass areas have been identified in their entirety.

This dataset was derived using the same methodology as the 'Greater Sydney Region Tree Canopy to Modified Mesh Block 2022' dataset.

Both of these datasets use the Modified Mesh Block boundaries from the ‘Greater Sydney Region Tree Canopy to Modified Mesh Block 2019’ dataset. Care should be taken when comparing canopy cover between datasets, especially in LGAs with a lower proportion of metropolitan urban area, as some observed differences may be a result of variations in methodologies rather than actual change in canopy cover.

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Data and Resources

HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Planning VEGETATION-Structural land surface temperature tree tree canopy tree cover urban heat vegetation vegetation health

Additional Info

Metadata template type Vector
Asset Type Dataset
Edition 1
Purpose Green infrastructure, tree canopy and urban heat planning and management
Update Frequency Not planned
Keywords VEGETATION-Structural,HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Planning
Geospatial Topic Environment
NSW Place Name Greater Sydney Region
Geospatial Coverage

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2024-12-12 - 2025-04-05
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
Licence Creative Commons Attribution
Landing page https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/opendata/dataset/greater-sydney-region-tree-canopy-modified-mesh-block-202425
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