Producing Urban Aerobiological Risk Map for Cupressaceae Family in the SW Iberian Peninsula from LiDAR Technology
| Autor: | José María Maya-Manzano, Raúl Pecero-Casimiro, Rafael Tormo-Molina, Alejandro Monroy-Colín, Juan Francisco Coloma, Inmaculada Silva-Palacios, Santiago Fernández-Rodríguez, Ángela Gonzalo-Garijo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Geographic information system
AIROT 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Cupressus arizonica Cupressus Science 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences allergy Cupressaceae green infrastructure risk maps pollen production urban ecolog Urban planning Air quality index 0105 earth and related environmental sciences biology business.industry Forestry Vegetation Airot Allergy Green Infrastructure Risk Maps Pollen Production Urban Ecology Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences biology.organism_classification Chemicals and Drugs ddc Geography Urban ecology urban ecology General Earth and Planetary Sciences Other Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences business Green infrastructure |
| Zdroj: | Remote Sensing Volume 12 Issue 10 Pages: 1562 Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Iss 1562, p 1562 (2020) Articles Remote Sens. 12:1562 (2020) |
| Popis: | Given the rise in the global population and the consequently high levels of pollution, urban green areas, such as those that include plants in the Cupressaceae family, are suitable to reduce the pollution levels, improving the air quality. However, some species with ornamental value are also very allergenic species whose planting should be regulated and their pollen production reduced by suitable pruning. The Aerobiological Index to create Risk maps for Ornamental Trees (AIROT), in its previous version, already included parameters that other indexes did not consider, such as the width of the streets, the height of buildings and the geographical characteristics of cities. It can be considered by working with LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data from five urban areas, which were used to create the DEM and DSM (digital elevation and surface models) needed to create one of the parameters. Pollen production is proposed as a parameter (α) based on characteristics and uses in the forms of hedges or trees that will be incorporated into the index. It will allow the comparison of different species for the evaluation of the pruning effect when aerobiological risks are established. The maps for some species of Cupressaceae (Cupressus arizonica, Cupressus macrocarpa, Cupressus sempervirens, Cupressocyparis leylandii and Platycladus orientalis) generated in a GIS (geographic information system) from the study of several functions of Kriging, have been used in cities to identify aerobiological risks in areas of tourist and gastronomic interest. Thus, allergy patients can make decisions about the places to visit depending on the levels of risk near those areas. The AIROT index provides valuable information for allergy patients, tourists, urban planning councillors and restaurant owners in order to structure the vegetation, as well as planning tourism according to the surrounding environmental risks and reducing the aerobiological risk of certain areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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