Urban areas are a major source of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO<sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">) emissions ...Urban areas are a major source of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO<sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">) emissions because of road traffic and local heating with natural gas, oil or coal. Rome is among the largest European cities (129,000 ha) with a large volume of green areas (69.6% of the total Municipality area). The CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> sequestration (CS) capability for the greenery extending for about 300 km</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> inside the area delimited by the Great Ring Road (GRA) in Rome was calculated combining satellite data with CS data measured in the field. Data from Sentinel-2 were collected and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was computed on a pixel-base. Three plant classes homogeneous in terms of annual NDVI profile were identified: deciduous trees (DT), evergreen trees (ET) and meadows (M) covering an area of 14,142.027 ha within the GRA, of which M had the highest percentage (48%), followed by DT (27%) and ET (25%). CS ranged from 428,241</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">,</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">492.9 </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">T</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ons CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> year</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-1</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> (ET) to 263,072</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">,</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">460.6 Tons CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> year</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-1</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> (M). The total CS of the greenery inside the GRA was 1049,490,355.4 Tons CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> year</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-1</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> resulting in an annual economic value of $772,424,901.6/ha. The CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> sequestration capability of the considered plant classes could be incorporated into the national greenhouse gas emission budget to calculate the contribution of CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> sequestration to the economy of Rome.</span></span>展开更多
文摘Urban areas are a major source of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO<sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">) emissions because of road traffic and local heating with natural gas, oil or coal. Rome is among the largest European cities (129,000 ha) with a large volume of green areas (69.6% of the total Municipality area). The CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> sequestration (CS) capability for the greenery extending for about 300 km</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> inside the area delimited by the Great Ring Road (GRA) in Rome was calculated combining satellite data with CS data measured in the field. Data from Sentinel-2 were collected and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was computed on a pixel-base. Three plant classes homogeneous in terms of annual NDVI profile were identified: deciduous trees (DT), evergreen trees (ET) and meadows (M) covering an area of 14,142.027 ha within the GRA, of which M had the highest percentage (48%), followed by DT (27%) and ET (25%). CS ranged from 428,241</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">,</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">492.9 </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">T</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ons CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> year</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-1</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> (ET) to 263,072</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">,</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">460.6 Tons CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> year</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-1</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> (M). The total CS of the greenery inside the GRA was 1049,490,355.4 Tons CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> year</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-1</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> resulting in an annual economic value of $772,424,901.6/ha. The CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> sequestration capability of the considered plant classes could be incorporated into the national greenhouse gas emission budget to calculate the contribution of CO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> sequestration to the economy of Rome.</span></span>