Wind-tree interaction: Technologies, measurement systems for tree motion studies and future trends

Zanotto, Francesco; Marchi, Luca; Grigolato, Stefano

doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2023.12.005

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“…While the importance of landscape configuration on disturbance occurrence and extent has long been recognized (Turner 1989) and empirically demonstrated for certain disturbances such as fire (Niklasson and Granström 2000;Pinto et al 2020), its effect on the spatial patterns of wind disturbance has remained unquantified. Instead, recent research has mostly focused on identifying the drivers of wind disturbance susceptibility at individual tree (Schmidt et al 2010;Zanotto et al 2024) and stand scales (Ruotsalainen et al 2023), as well as Vol:. ( 1234567890)…”

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Landscape configuration and storm characteristics drive spatial patterns of wind disturbance in boreal forest landscapes

Kulha,

Heikkinen,

Holder

et al. 2024

Landsc Ecol

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Context Wind is an important disturbance in circumboreal forests, and its frequency and severity may change with climate change, highlighting the need to understand the drivers of wind disturbance. Currently, how landscape configuration drives wind disturbance is poorly understood. Objectives We investigated whether and how landscape configuration is related to the extent and spatial pattern of wind disturbance, and how these relationships vary between windstorms and thunderstorms. Methods We used salvage logging data after 16 storms that occurred in Finland between 2011 and 2021. We placed a total of 301 landscapes, each encompassing an area of 8024 ha, within the storm tracks and used regression models to test how wind disturbance extent, disturbance patch size, number of disturbance patches, and disturbance patch clustering were related to landscape configuration and storm characteristics. Results Increasing mean gap size and edge density, including permanent openings (e.g., lakes) and recent harvest gaps, increased disturbance extent, disturbance patch size, and number of disturbance patches. Conversely, increasing mean harvest gap size decreased disturbance patch clustering. Increasing wind speed had the largest contribution to increasing disturbance extent and number of disturbance patches, and decreasing disturbance patch clustering, with the magnitude of the effect varying between windstorms and thunderstorms. Conclusions The extent and spatial pattern of wind disturbances varied with landscape configuration and storm characteristics. Disturbance patches were larger in landscapes with large canopy gaps, resulting in a greater disturbance extent, exacerbated by increasing wind speed and thunderstorm development.

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Landscape configuration and storm characteristics drive spatial patterns of wind disturbance in boreal forest landscapes

Kulha,

Heikkinen,

Holder

et al. 2024

Landsc Ecol

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Space‐to‐tree: Architectural framework for real‐time monitoring of pines in natural and historical park

Fiorentino,

AbdelRahman,

D'Antonio

et al. 2024

Internet Technology Letters

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The conservation and promotion of natural and cultural heritage, including landscapes, constitutes a subject of great economic and social importance. In recent times, there has been an increasing emphasis on the debate around strategies for developing an integrated approach to environmental and cultural heritage. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has highlighted these challenges in its conventions, emphasizing the need for proactive measures to protect cultural heritage. The European Space Agency project “From space to Tree” (S23) aimed to develop an alert system for real‐time monitoring of trees stability. The experimental site was the Archaeological Park of Colosseum in Rome. Inside the park there are countless pine trees of historical‐cultural interest. The System and Service Architecture (SSA) describes the structure of the pilot system, detailing the high‐level architecture and its constituent components. The monitoring system follows an integrated multi‐scale approach and combines the health status of trees monitored by multi‐temporal Sentinel‐2 remote sensing images, the movements of the trees in response to wind stress, monitored by four inertial measurement units (IMUs) installed at different heights on each individual tree to detect its movement in response to wind stress, a weather station equipped with an ultrasonic anemometer and the in‐field surveys and analyzes carried out by expert forestry agronomists. The acquired data is transmitted in real time to a dedicated server, by using the 5G network. Results show that data transmission system becomes more complex as the number of monitored trees increases, consequently the transmission system was designed taking this criticality into account. The data are displayed and analyzed in a dedicated Web‐GIS platform. The experimentation is still ongoing, during the first experimental year, the analysis algorithm was trained in the first 6 months. During the test period, an alert is generated when changes are found in the behavior of the pines, based on remote sensing images and trees' response to wind stress analysis, compared to the training period.

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Identifying wind-tree dynamics with numerical simulations based on experimental modal analysis

Zanotto,

Grigolato,

Schindler

et al. 2024

Forest Ecology and Management

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Wind-tree interaction: Technologies, measurement systems for tree motion studies and future trends

Cited by 4 publications

References 98 publications

Landscape configuration and storm characteristics drive spatial patterns of wind disturbance in boreal forest landscapes

Landscape configuration and storm characteristics drive spatial patterns of wind disturbance in boreal forest landscapes

Space‐to‐tree: Architectural framework for real‐time monitoring of pines in natural and historical park

Identifying wind-tree dynamics with numerical simulations based on experimental modal analysis

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