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Edinburgh crowned as greenest city in Britain

Xinhua, January 7, 2017 Adjust font size:

Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, has been crowned as Britain's greenest city, after experts made a study of images captured from space.

The study showed that half of Edinburgh is green space, with Scotland's other major city, Glasgow coming next with almost a third of its area (32 percent) classified as green space.

Bottom of the list, which looked at Britain's 10 biggest cities, was Liverpool with just 16.4 percent of the city green.

The British mapping company Esri UK analysed images from the Landsat 8 satellite last spring, zooming in on 10 British cities with the largest populations.

Esri said the results showed that the amount of green space in British cities varied widely, with some have three times more space than others.

A spokesman for Esri UK said they "analysed with the organisation's image analysis tools, using the industry standard NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), to calculate the percentage of green space in each city."

Esri UK is a mapping software company which carries out work for the government's Environment Agency as well as the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra). Endit