Quantifying the shade provision of street trees in urban landscape: A case study in Boston, USA, using Google Street View

2018 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojiang Li ◽  
Carlo Ratti ◽  
Ian Seiferling
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Street Trees ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Street View

scholarly journals Assessing Species Habitat Using Google Street View: A Case Study of Cliff-Nesting Vultures

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. e54582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro P. Olea ◽  
Patricia Mateo-Tomás
Keyword(s):  
Google Street View ◽  
Street View

scholarly journals Assessing soil sealing and ecosystem services of urban front yards using Google Street View: A case study in Bloemhof district Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2022 ◽  
Vol 955 (1) ◽  
pp. 012019
Author(s):  
TH Heikoop
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Environmental Benefit ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Soil Sealing ◽  
Considerable Portion ◽  
Street View ◽  
Very High ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract Private gardens play an important role as urban green space in cities and can improve the microclimate and address the impacts of climate change. Paving over front yards, soil sealing, reduces the environmental benefit of front yards. Residential private front yards comprise a considerable portion of land and green space in the suburbs of cities. Currently there is no method available to determine sealed soil percentages of private front yards. This study took place in the Bloemhof suburban district in Rotterdam. Four streets were selected and a total of 123 houses with 105 private front yards were assessed. Five sealed soil reference categories were defined and Google Street View (GSV) images were used to assess the front yards. This study found that the aggregated sealed soil percentages of the private front yards in the four selected streets are very high: 69%, 78%, 96%, and 97%. These front yards have a significant greening potential. The new insight in this study is that the use of Google Street View images for categorisation of front yards leads to values for individual front yard that can be used for comparison and for establishing sealed soil values per street.

Contribution of Street Trees to Carbon Sequestration: A Case Study from Varanasi, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
pp. 09-15
Author(s):  
Hema Singh ◽  
Ashutosh K. Singh ◽  
J. S. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Street Trees ◽  
Ambient Temperatures ◽  
Resource Unit ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
And Function ◽  
Ambient Co2

Street trees are a valuable resource for a city, because of the lower ambient temperatures, mitigate urban heat island effects, reduce runoff of rainwater and the abundance of aerial particulate matter, add visual appeal to the urban landscape and store and sequester a significant amount of carbon from the ambient CO2. We quantified carbon storage and sequestration by street trees in the campus of Banaras Hindu University located within a highly crowded city of India. Street trees in the BHU campus account for 9.8 × 107 kg stem biomass and stored 4.6 × 107 kg carbon in the stems. By interpolating the electricity resource unit values campus street trees stored 7.3 × 107 KWH energy. These trees, of course, have to be properly managed for maintaining their vigor and function.

scholarly journals Estimating city-level travel patterns using street imagery: A case study of using Google Street View in Britain

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. e0196521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Goel ◽  
Leandro M. T. Garcia ◽  
Anna Goodman ◽  
Rob Johnson ◽  
Rachel Aldred ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Travel Patterns ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Street View

scholarly journals Contribution of Street Trees to Carbon Sequestration: A Case Study from Varanasi, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Hema Singh ◽  
Ashutosh Kumar Singh ◽  
J. S. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Street Trees ◽  
Ambient Temperatures ◽  
Resource Unit ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
And Function ◽  
Ambient Co2

Street trees are a valuable resource for a city, because they lower ambient temperatures, mitigate urban heat island effects, reduce runoff of rainwater and the abundance of aerial particulate matter, add visual appeal to the urban landscape and store and sequester significant amount of carbon from the ambient CO2. In this paper, we have quantified carbon storage and sequestration by street trees in the campus of Banaras Hindu University located within a highly crowded city of India. Street trees in the BHU campus account for 9.8×107 kg stem biomass, and stored 4.6×107 kg carbon in the stems. By interpolating the electricity resource unit values campus street trees stored 7.3×107 KWH energy. These trees, of course, have to be properly managed for maintaining their vigour and function.

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