UUL FLORENCE is committed to the development of green infrastructure for better adaptation to climate change, including urban heat islands and the extreme weather events. However, this is a very challenging task, especially due to the historic heritage in the city centre areas and also the shrinking amount of greenery in the recent designs of public spaces. ULL Florence will orchestrate the digital survey activities to capture the morphological conditions of urban areas and greenery systems, using established tools and emerging methods such as the UAV- and street view-based acquisition, to create tree representations to be used in 3D models, estimations and environmental simulations. ULL Florence will initiate the correlation of tree parameters and responses to environmental conditions, including heat stresses, from digital tree inventories.
