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Viacheslav Vasenev
IoT monitoring of urban tree ecosystem services: Possibilities and challenges
Urban green infrastructure plays an increasingly significant role in sustainable urban development planning as it provides important regulating and cultural ecosystem services. Monitoring of such dynamic and complex systems requires technological solutions which provide easy data collection, processing, and utilization at affordable costs. To meet these challenges a pilot study was conducted using a network of wireless, low cost, and multiparameter monitoring devices, which operate using Internet of Things (IoT) technology, to provide real-time monitoring of regulatory ecosystem services in the form of meaningful indicators for both human health and environmental policies. The pilot study w…
Review of the last two decades experiences of technosols construction for urban greening
With the rise in urban population and the urban sprawl come demand for solutions to offset the environmental burden in cities. Green infrastructures are interconnected urban spaces that provide multi-ecological functions and that mainly rely on their soils component. However, because of either the consumption of such natural resources as neighboring topsoil or the poor design and implementation of soil materials, actual approaches are questionable.Constructed Technosols, consisting of rational associations of organic and mineral wastes, are artificial soils designed to meet specific requirements. Such innovative solution based on circular economy may appear as valuable contribution to susta…