Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Development of Urban Green Infrastructure: Proceedings of Smart and Sustainable Cities 2020 [Hardcover]

This proceedings book focuses on advanced technologies to monitor and model urban soils, vegetation and climate, including internet of things, remote sensing, express and non-destructive techniques. The Smart and Sustainable Cities (SSC) conference is a regular event, organized each second year in RUDN University (Russia) and providing a multidisciplinary platform for scientists and practitioners in urban environmental monitoring, modeling, planning and management.Tree health of Larix sibirica Ledeb. in the railway impact zone on Kola Peninsula.- The influence of soil quality on trees health in urban forest.- Ground penetrating radar tomography application to study of live tree trunks: case studies of defects detection.- Morphological and Macroanatomical Indicators of Long-Term and Current State of Trees of Quercus.- Carbon Dioxide Fluxes of an Urban Forest in Moscow.- Regulating Ecosystem Services in Russian cities: Can Urban Green Infrastructure Cope with Air Pollution and Heat Islands?.- Effects of Small Water Bodies on the Urban Heat Island and their Interaction with Urban Green Spaces in a Medium-Size City in Germany.- Assessment of Soil Properties and Tree Performance on Fountain Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue Landfills in New York City.- Variability of Infiltration Rates at Selected Green Infrastructure Sites in New York City.- Assessment of soil heavy metal pollution by land use zones in small towns of the industrialized Arctic region, Russia.- Activity concentration of natural radionuclides and total heavy metals content in soils of urban agglomeration.- Metabolic adjustments in urban lawns in response to soil salinization.- Impact of Overgrown plant Deposit on physicochemical properties: Sod-podzolic soils during the last 60 years in the Central State Biosphere Forest Reserve, Western European Part of Russia.- Culturable Airborne Fungi of Ul#)