The Digital Green Cadastre

Open Data and Ecosystem Services

Nicola Noe, Agronomist, PhD

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Preface

The Digital Green Cadastre is an open project undertaken by a multidisciplinary group of professionals – agronomists, architects and engineers, who share the certainty that the development of the territory can be planned in harmony between man and environment.

This publication is the result of 5 years of research, experimentation, trial and error, change of strategies, in an ICT (Information and Communications Technology) world in dramatic evolution.

The plants, luckily, are much more stable.

 

Acknowledgments

I relied on the support of the Digital Green Cadastre working group: Paolo Mistrangelo, Lorenzo Noe, Nicola Noe and Dario Vanetti.

Special thanks go to Edoardo Garbagnati, Federico Massi, Roberto Passini and Maurizio Rini for their help.

The project would never come to life without the support of MagellanoProgetti (http://www.magellanoprogetti.com/) and Urbanstudio (http://www.urbanstudio.it/).

I am grateful to Nicoletta Costi Richards for helping with the language (https://www.assointerpreti.it/interpreti-regionali-lombardia-1/).

 

 

Summary of the book

 

Acknowledgments ………………………………………………………………………………………… 2

Summary …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3

Preface ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6

The Botanical Heritage and the Natural Capital ………………………………………………. 7

Measurement of Botanical Heritage in terms of environmental performance ………8

A Digital Cadastre of the Urban Green Spaces …………………………………………………. 9

Presentation of the DGC project concept ………………………………………………………..10

The characteristics of the DGC project ………………………………………………………….. 11

Description of the innovativeness and originality of the Project ………………………..13

Expected positive effects of the Project …………………………………………………………. 14

“Before and After” the DGC …………………………………………………………………………. 16

The ICT bases …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 17

Technical specifications of the botanical data interchange system called “Digital

Green Cadastre”………………………………………………………………………………………… 18

Definition of the DGC ……………………………………………………………………………….. 18

The relational structure of the DGC ……………………………………………………………. 19

Classes of objects managed in the DGC ………………………………………………………. 19

Logical structure of the “Surfaces” …………………………………………………………….. 20

Logical structure of “Punctual Objects”……………………………………………………….. 21

Logical structure of the “Administrative Zones” ………………………………………….. 21

The Trees & Shrubs database …………………………………………………………………….. 22

Connection of the DGC nodes ……………………………………………………………………. 22

Reproducibility of the project ……………………………………………………………………. 24

The DGC with respect to the laws in force …………………………………………………… 25

Sustainable development models ………………………………………………………………. 26

The Leaf Area, a parameter to measure the Botanical Heritage and Ecosystem

Services …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 27

Ecosystem services provided by the leaf apparatus of trees in urban environment

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………30

Interception of rainwater ………………………………………………………………………….. 33

Energy savings ………………………………………………………………………………………… 35

Removal of air pollutants …………………………………………………………………………. 37

CO2 reduction …………………………………………………………………………………………. 39

From the DGC to the Green balance ………………………………………………………….. 42

More features of the DGC …………………………………………………………………………. 43

Radical respect area………………………………………………………………………………….. 43

Three-dimensional green …………………………………………………………………………. 44

Other figures …………………………………………………………………………………………… 44

APPENDIX ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 45

DGC for the municipality of Abbiategrasso (Milan, Italy) …………………………….. 46

Technical sheet ………………………………………………………………………………………… 49

Green Balance …………………………………………………………………………………………. 52

Census of public and private gardens: proposal for a pilot project in Milan, Italy

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 58

AMAGA GOES TO SCHOOL – New green mapping project involving schools .. 61

DGC for the municipality of Paullo, Milan Italy ………………………………………….. 63

Milan Metropolitan City …………………………………………………………………………… 65

Examples of application of the DGC ………………………………………………………….. 66

The DGC roadmap on OSM ………………………………………………………………………. 71

Other Green Cadastres available online ……………………………………………………… 73

New York City Street Tree Map …………………………………………………………………. 73

Milan, Italy ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 73

Meran (Province of Bozen) Italy ………………………………………………………………… 74

San Donato Milanese, Italy ……………………………………………………………………….. 74

Cesano Boscone, Italy ……………………………………………………………………………….. 75

Monumental trees in Italy …………………………………………………………………………. 76

Other tools available online for the measurement of ecosystem services ………… 77

i-TreeTM ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 77

Map of Chicago’s Tree Canopy ……………………………………………………………………. 77

Treepedia …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 78

The Power of Trees ……………………………………………………………………………………. 79

Santa Monica CA ………………………………………………………………………………………. 79

Monumental trees world register ……………………………………………………………….. 81

Leaf Area Index (LAI) ……………………………………………………………………………….. 82

The Trees & Shrubs database …………………………………………………………………….. 84

Estimate of the ornamental value of the trees ……………………………………………… 85

Green Walls …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 88

Green Bonus ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 89

DGC logical structure of the “Surfaces” ………………………………………………………. 90

DGC logical structure of “Punctual Objects” ……………………………………………….. 91

DGC logical structure of the “Administrative Zones” …………………………………… 92

DGC Awards ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 93

Agronomist and Forestry Doctor for Sustainable Food Award ………………………. 93

“The City for the Green” Award ………………………………………………………………….. 94

Notes about the author ………………………………………………………………………………. 96

References ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 98

 

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