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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"urban tree canopy"”.
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Urban Tree Canopy Assessments in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
An urban tree canopy assessment (UTCA) is a new technology that can inform management decisions to optimize the economic, social and environmental benefits provided by urban forests. A UTCA uses remote sensing to create a comprehensive spatial snapshot of a locality's land cover, classified at a …
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Mapping urban forest extent and modeling sequestered carbon across Chattanooga, TN using GIS and remote sensing
… is among many cities experiencing rapid urbanization and subsequent losses to urban forest area. Using remote sensing and digital image processing, this research 1) applied supervised hybrid classification across Landsat imagery that quantified the extent of urban forest loss across …
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Influence of Tree Planting Program Characteristics on Environmental Justice Outcomes
Urban trees provide a variety of benefits to human physical and mental health. However, prior research has shown that urban tree canopy is unevenly distributed; areas with lower household incomes or higher proportions of racial or ethnic minorities tend to have less canopy. Urban tree benefits are …
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Tree Canopy Cover Response to Land Development Policies in Fairfax County
Urban tree canopy cover is important because it mitigates negative impacts of urbanization such as urban heat and stormwater. Land development leads to canopy loss through tree removal, but some localities have regulations in place that require trees to be retained or replanted during development. …
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Developing a Satellite-Based Methodology to Estimate Built-up Biocapacity for Use in the National Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts: A Comparative Study of Pléiades Neo and Sentinel-2 Imagery, Classification Algorithms, and Segmentation Approaches
… Although Sentinel-2 results captured a lot of urban tree canopy, with a lower BC yield than trees in urban forests, the higher area attributed to this land cover explains the low difference in means between Sentinel-2 and Pléiades Neo results.
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Investigating the Impact of Urban Tree Planting Strategies for Shade and Residential Energy Conservation
Expanding urbanization, characterized by increased impervious surfaces and decreased tree canopy, is contributing to rising urban temperatures. This trend has implications for energy consumption, which strategically placed trees can modify by casting shade upon building and ground surfaces. …
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Planning the urban forest to enhance urban resilience
… identify extreme heat as a significant threat to urban areas. This is largely due to the impact of heat on human health, their livelihoods, and access to resources (USGCRP, 2018; IPCC, 2014). Both the IPCC (2014) and the USGCRP (2018) identify afforestation as a key strategy for moderating the …