Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and Bengaluru Urban District Land cover is extracted from the European Space Agency (ESA) World Cover 2021 (based on v200 Algorithm). This freely accessible global land cover product at 10 m resolution for 2021 is based on both Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data, containing 11 land cover classes and independently validated with a global overall accuracy of 76.7%.
The BBMP area shows 60.8% built up with only 1.03% permanent water bodies and 19.8% tree cover.