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DOI | 10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.01.036 |
Tree shade coverage optimization in an urban residential environment | |
Zhao, Qunshan1; Wentz, Elizabeth A.1; Murray, Alan T.2 | |
通讯作者 | Zhao, Qunshan |
来源期刊 | BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT
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ISSN | 0360-1323 |
EISSN | 1873-684X |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 115页码:269-280 |
英文摘要 | Shade provided by trees, shrubs and other vegetation serves as a natural umbrella to mitigate insolation absorbed by features of the urban environment, especially building structures. For a desert community, tree shade is a valuable asset, contributing to energy conservation efforts, improving home values, enabling cost savings, and promoting enhanced health and well-being. Therefore, maximizing tree shade coverage is an important component in creating an eco-friendly and sustainable urban environment. Strategic placement of trees enhances tree shade coverage of buildings. This paper details an optimization method to simultaneously maximize tree shade coverage on building facades and open structures and to minimize shade coverage on building rooftops in a 3-dimensional environment. This method integrates geographic information systems and spatial optimization approaches for placing trees that provide the greatest potential benefit to a building. A residential area in Tempe, Arizona is utilized to demonstrate the capabilities of the method. The optimization results show that two trees can provide up to 22.20 m(2) shade coverage at 12:00 across a 54 m(2) south-facing facade. This research offers a method to help homeowners, urban planners, and policy makers to quantitatively evaluate shade coverage from trees for building structures in a residential environment. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
英文关键词 | Tree shade coverage Spatial optimization Location modeling Solar insolation GIS |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000397363000022 |
WOS关键词 | ENERGY USE ; HEAT ; IMPACT ; MORBIDITY ; MORTALITY ; LOCATION ; VEGETATION ; CANOPIES ; SURFACES ; ISLAND |
WOS类目 | Construction & Building Technology ; Engineering, Environmental ; Engineering, Civil |
WOS研究方向 | Construction & Building Technology ; Engineering |
来源机构 | Arizona State University |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/197972 |
作者单位 | 1.Arizona State Univ, Ctr Geog Informat Sci, Sch Geog Sci & Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA; 2.Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Geog, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhao, Qunshan,Wentz, Elizabeth A.,Murray, Alan T.. Tree shade coverage optimization in an urban residential environment[J]. Arizona State University,2017,115:269-280. |
APA | Zhao, Qunshan,Wentz, Elizabeth A.,&Murray, Alan T..(2017).Tree shade coverage optimization in an urban residential environment.BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT,115,269-280. |
MLA | Zhao, Qunshan,et al."Tree shade coverage optimization in an urban residential environment".BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT 115(2017):269-280. |
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