Street Tree Inventory of Campinas, Brazil: An Instrument for Urban Forestry Management and Planning    (View PDF)

Ivan André Alvarez, Bruna Cristina Gallo, Edlene Aparecida Monteiro Garçon, and Osvaldo Tadatomo Oshiro

Abstract: Campinas Metropolitan Region is the third richest city in Brazil. This study assesses the urban street trees of Campinas based on data from a survey performed using satellite images in the year 2011. All public domain trees in the street system were counted and separated into trees, shrubs, palm trees, and seedlings. The density of trees was obtained using the images census and expressed as trees per linear kilometer for the perimeter of the block. The number of trees per linear kilometer was grouped into nine classes of different densities for data validation. The final number of trees was estimated based on the validation’s results. The Gini coefficient shows that the number of trees per person is very irregular in city neighborhoods (i.e., Campinas has a fairer income distribution than street trees distribution). There is a lower density of trees in the downtown area, due to the high concentration of population, and in more peripheral neighborhoods, due to the lack of design planning. The results obtained here may be used to support a new setting of local priorities for planting actions aimed at urban forestry management.

Keywords: Brazil; Campinas; Census; Density; Geoprocessing; Gini Coeffcient; Remote Sensing; Street Trees; Urban Ecology; Urban Forest.

https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2015.022