Canopy cover change at site (square metres)
Definition
The shade area of a site’s living trees at T4 or later minus the site’s baseline canopy, the shade area at T0 or, where no baseline visit was made, zero for trees planted by the project. An impact of the planting on the place, reported per site and place.
purpose
To report what a site gained in canopy because of the project, as the green-space figure a municipality or funder can set against its open-space objectives.
rationale
A shade area alone does not say what the project added; the difference against the baseline does, and zero baseline for project trees keeps the figure honest where no T0 visit was made.
Classification
- Result level: Impact
- Outcome domains: Green-space access and amenity
- Unit of observation: Site
- Activity types: Monitoring visit
- Earliest horizon: T4 two to three years
- Approval status: Approved
- Unit of measure:
M2
Collections
- Shade and heat module: Optional: the shade a planting produces and the canopy a site gains, measured from T4 under NCGS-M004. For projects whose objective is thermal comfort and quality of place.
Methodologies that serve it
Where it can be claimed, by stratum and horizon: the claims table.