:: Applications ::

UFORE and CITYgreen have been applied to a number of study sites and cities. Analyses have been done almost exclusively by (or in cooperation with) the NFS and American Forests, but the have been an important advocacy tool for groups and organizations seeking to protect and augment the urban forest (CITYgreen in particular). Most UFORE analyses have been done on a citywide basis, providing valuable city baseline information. U.S. cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore have been analyzed.

CITYgreen appears to have spread more easily and been applied more often than UFORE (most likely because of its GIS platform and water runoff module). Case studies are available on CITYgreen's website. An interesting application of CITYgreen is the Cool Schools Tree Planting Program in Los Angeles, which used CITYgreen to model alternative scenarios on schoolyards (see Figure 1.) With CITYgreen, the researchers modeled the environmental and economic impacts of increasing tree cover on schoolyards (measures that were in fact taken).The full report is available as a pdf download [here].

Figure 1. Schoolyard mapping before (top) and after (bottom) increased tree cover
Source: Assessment of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Cool Schools Tree Planting Program [here]