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UPT, bridge between Timișoara and Beijing

Targeting urban green spaces

19 January 2018

 

 

 

 

 

What are the new international challenges for urban green spaces, how important they are, what is the optimal proportion, how are Timișoara and Beijing at the "green spaces" chapter, both quantitatively and qualitatively how can they be monitored, how to make their 3D modeling, how to obtain functional models for rehabilitation of urban ecological conditions? There are only a few questions answered by a research project initiated by the Politehnica University Timișoara in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Today, the urban population across the globe is over 50%, and according to the latest studies, more than 60% of the total population (4.9 billion people) will live in urban areas by 2030. With such a development, the city undergoes a series of transformations and problems related to air pollution, solid waste, and a considerable reduction of green spaces in line with increased gray areas, deterioration of water quality and the environment.

This is the context in which the Politehnica University Timișoara started a research project on "Development of Urban Green Space Monitoring Technologies by Remote Sensing. Comparative Study Timișoara - România and Beijing - China ", in partnership with The Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), which operates at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). RADI is the largest research institute in the field and has immediate objectives to research on the modeling and assessment of urban green spaces.

Project Coordinator from the Romanian side is EngD, Reader Sorin Herban, who has a rich experience in field monitoring and spatial planning applicable to urban GIS and 3D modeling of data acquired through technologies such as terrestrial laser scanning and photogrammetry. The idea of the project arose after the Timișoara teacher was involved in a European project that had the same research directions. Subsequently, appeared the opportunity to work with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and EngD, Reader Sorin Herban necessarily wanted us to be integrated, as a country and academic community, into a global study of urban green space monitoring, which has implicit effect in monitoring the quality of life of townspeople.

The project teams in Romania and China have thus developed a very close and fruitful collaboration, with bilateral visits to Timișoara and Beijing, bringing together information technologies (the Chinese side especially with regard to information obtained from the satellite and the Romanian ones from the ground), and in the end were created 3D models that offer not only quantitative information, but also the qualitative, proposing even new parameters that have not been studied or used so far.

The outcome of the study would be particularly useful to Timișoara City Hall (but could be adapted to other administrations) that could, in addition to monitoring urban green areas with high resolution technology, also benefit from urban mapping solutions or ways to assess the urban environment by analyzing the spatial configuration of urban buildings and urban green space, to promote the scientific understanding of the interaction between buildings, green space and human beings.

 
UPT, punte între Timișoara și Beijing
UPT, punte între Timișoara și Beijing
UPT, punte între Timișoara și Beijing
UPT, punte între Timișoara și Beijing
UPT, punte între Timișoara și Beijing
 
 
 
 
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