Shade area of living trees (square metres)
Definition
The sum over living tree individuals at a site of the crown area computed from the two canopy axes measured on a monitoring visit at T4 or later, as an ellipse. An impact: the shade a site has because its trees persisted, never projected from a count of trees planted.
purpose
To report the shade a planting produces, per site, species and place, as the benefit the well-being and heat-resilience objectives rest on, once trees are old enough for a crown to mean something.
rationale
KIA-Adapt measured canopy axes per tree and derived shade area (A4 I.A.3.2.3); the standard captures the axes on every visit but claims shade only from T4, so that a 2026 design cannot promise shade inside a 120-day period (ADR-0012).
Classification
- Result level: Impact
- Outcome domains: Climate resilience, Human well-being and quality of place
- Unit of observation: Tree individual
- Activity types: Monitoring visit
- Earliest horizon: T4 two to three years
- Approval status: Approved
- Unit of measure:
M2
Collections
- Quality of life module: Optional: the shade a planting produces and the households whose tree lived. For projects whose objective is well-being and quality of place.
- 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.