Records in the live release
52,349
Release 2026-11-12, 12 November 2026. Its fingerprint: 3511fed12d5520e47d8a9b5d249bc22dd124fb1f4dca325f784df7de9d2f32bf (what that is).
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Greenness by ward
How green the land is in every ward, each month since 2017, and whether that is more or less than usual for the month. Measured from space.
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What it holds
In more detail
How green every ward, municipality, district and province looks from space each month since 2017 (mean NDVI from Digital Earth Africa, Landsat and Sentinel-2), against its normal for the month (1984 to 2020), with the share of the place seen and CLMS's 300 m NDVI as a second reading.
How far it reaches
52,349 records: every 2026 ward, municipality, district and province, monthly from January 2017 to 2026-10; normals 1984 to 2020.
How often it changes
Monthly
Monthly: Digital Earth Africa publishes a month's NDVI a few weeks after it ends; CLMS within days.
Where the figures come from
Digital Earth Africa; Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. From Digital Earth Africa's NDVI anomaly (CC BY 4.0) and the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service's NDVI (full, open and free access; source: Copernicus Land Monitoring Service).
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Measured accuracy
Not checked against a source page: its figures are worked out from satellite greenness grids, not printed on a page. 50 records sampled on 12 November 2026. The sample and any failures.
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Get it
On this site
See greenness, free, no account.
Through the API
/v1/datasets/greenness-by-ward/records, as JSON, CSV or Excel, with filters and any past date. Fields and filters. It takes a key.
All of it at once (Parquet)
The full history, built with release 2026-11-12. A download takes a key; the fingerprints are public. How to download a snapshot.
greenness-by-ward-2026-11-12-records.parquet: 52,349 record rows (every release), 6.2 MB. sha2560a738fedef89049b…
For data portals
Described in DCAT in /catalog.json and on this page.
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