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KitWallace / TreeCanopyCover

Calculating and displaying tree canopy cover
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Conversion factors #2

Open KitWallace opened 4 years ago

KitWallace commented 4 years ago

These have been deduced from the i-tree Eco study of Bristol in 2018 by taking year totals by pollutant (including CO2) for the spreadsheet of pulution factors, converting from total kg to kg per hectare tree canopy. In use these are then used to comute values per area based on its estimated hectares.

These values need to be better calibrated - treeconimics has such factors and I will ask

KitWallace commented 4 years ago

Paper by Hirabayashi (2014) i_tree Canopy air Pollution Removal and MonetaryValue Model may be relevant. These have now been used in place of the computed values from the i-tree eco survey - mostly they are fairly close except for CO