Tree Cover Assessment
Author : David Morales-Hidalgo
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN : 3867270864
Assessing Urban Forest Effects and Values
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Forest surveys
ISBN :
Book Description
An analysis of trees in Washington, D.C. reveals that this city has about 1,928,000 trees with canopies that cover 28.6 percent of the area. The most common tree species are American beech, red maple, and boxelder. The urban forest currently store about 526,000 tons of carbon valued at $9.7 million. In addition, these trees remove about 16,200 tons of carbon per year ($299,000 per year) and about 540 tons of air pollution per year ($2.5 million per year). The structural, or compensatory, value is estimated at $3.6 billion. Information on the structure and functions of the urban forest can be used to improve and augment support for urban forest management programs and to integrate urban forests within plans to improve environmental quality in the Washington, D.C. area.
Ecohydrology
Author : Peter S. Eagleson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139433407
Book Description
This volume investigates how the physical characteristics and productivity of forest communities are related to the climates and soils in which they are found. It will provide fascinating reading for graduate-level students and research scientists working in ecohydrology, hydroclimatology, forest ecology, and surface water hydrology.
Los Angeles 1-Million Tree Canopy Cover Assessment
Author : E. Gregory McPherson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1437936067
Book Description
The Million Trees LA initiative intends to chart a course for sustainable growth through planting and stewardship of trees. This study measures LA's existing tree canopy cover (TCC), determines if space exists for 1 million additional trees, and estimates future benefits from the planting. Benefits were forecast for planting of 1 million trees between 2006 and 2010, and their growth and mortality were projected until 2040. LA's existing TCC was 21%. There is potential to add 2.5 million additional trees to the existing population of 10.8 million, but only 1.3 million of the potential tree sites are deemed realistic to plant. Thus, there is space for planting 1 million new trees. Benefits for the 1-million-tree planting were between $1.33 band $1.95 billion.
Assessment of Tree Condition
Author : John L. Innes
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Air pollution
ISBN :
Book Description
Forest condition is now assessed annually in most European countries. This field book provides details of assessment procedures used by the Forestry Commission in their main monitoring programme. Although this programme is restricted to Sitka spruce, Norway spruce, Scots pine, oak and beech, the techniques that are described are applicable with little or no modification to most other tree species. While emphasis has been placed on the assessment of crown density, a variety of other indexes are also used. These are described and an assessment system is provided for each parameter. The additional indices enable a full description to be made of the condition of a tree.
Assessing urban forest effects and values New York City’s urban forest
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Trees in cities
ISBN : 9781422324615
Book Description
A Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use with Remote Sensor Data
Author : James Richard Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Land cover
ISBN :
Book Description
Sustaining America's Urban Trees and Forests
Author : David John Nowak
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Forest management
ISBN :
Book Description
Close to 80 percent of the U.S. population lives in urban areas and depends on the essential ecological, economic, and social benefits provided by urban trees and forests. However, the distribution of urban tree cover and the benefits of urban forests vary across the United States, as do the challenges of sustaining this important resource. As urban areas expand across the country, the importance of the benefits that urban forests provide, as well as the challenges to their conservation and maintenance, will increase. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the current status and benefits of America's urban forests, compare differences in urban forest canopy cover among regions, and discuss challenges facing urban forests and their implications for urban forest management.
Green Infrastructure
Author : Mark A. Benedict
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1597267643
Book Description
With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure advances smart land conservation: large scale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. From the individual parcel to the multi-state region, Green Infrastructure helps each of us look at the landscape in relation to the many uses it could serve, for nature and people, and determine which use makes the most sense. In this wide-ranging primer, leading experts in the field provide a detailed how-to for planners, designers, landscape architects, and citizen activists.
Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl from Remote Sensing Data
Author : Basudeb Bhatta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642052991
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles views of numerous researchers that help in understanding the urban growth and sprawl; their patterns, process, causes, consequences, and countermeasures; how remote sensing data and geographic information system techniques can be used in mapping, monitoring, measuring, analyzing, and simulating the urban growth and sprawl and what are the merits and demerits of available methods and models. This book will be of value for the scientists and researchers engaged in urban geographic research, especially using remote sensing imageries. This book will serve as a rigours literature review for them. Post graduate students of urban geography or urban/regional planning may refer this book as additional studies. This book may help the academicians for preparing lecture notes and delivering lectures. Industry professionals may also be benefited from the discussed methods and models along with numerous citations.
