Within the Province of Zeeland, tree removal is generally allowed, but it is required to notify the province and replant an equivalent number of trees within three years. However, there is limited insight into tree removal that is not reported through this mandatory notification system, resulting in …

This Plan of Approach outlines how Work Package 1 (WP1) of the Interreg NSR Cool Cities project will support eight partner cities in the governance and planning of urban heat adaptation. It is written for urban professionals, project partners, and urban planners involved in the co-creation of adaptation …

Built environments are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Most European towns and cities have developed horizontally over time but are currently in the process of further densification. High-rise developments are being built within city boundaries at an unprecedented rate to accommodate …

Currently, there is no method available that can systematically score the available ecosystem services in streets or street segments in suburban districts. In this study, different climate adaptation measures and their ecosystem services were categorized into green, blue, and grey categories and weight …

Bitman B.V. heeft in 2012 een knowledge based system ontwikkeld wat momenteel door T-Mobile gebruikt wordt. De decision tree opzet is de kern van het systeem. Het huidige systeem is opgezet in PHP Fusebox, een verouderd framework waar geen updates meer voor worden uitgebracht. Dit heeft als gevolg dat …

In this work, the concept of an Artificial Intelligence-based (AI) Digital Twin (DT) of an aircraft system is introduced, with the goal to improve the corresponding MRO Operations. More specifically, the current study aims to obtaining knowledge on the optimal placement of sensors in an ideal Power Electronics …

Het doel van dit onderzoek is het ontwikkelen van een model op basis van technieken uit het veld Educational Data Mining (EDM) die door individuen zowel bekend als onbekend met het veld (EDM) in gebruik genomen kan worden om studiesucces (al dan niet doorstromen naar het tweede leerjaar) mee te kunnen …

It is difficult to select an appropriate tree for an urban environment because in an urban environment, trees which are planted in unsuitable locations, can be inconvenient for humans and can cause severe health problems or property damage. Trees are planted in unsuitable locations because of difficulties …

Urban planning will benefit from tools that can assess the vulnerability to thermal stress in urban dense cities. Detailed quick-scan heat stress maps, as made in this study for Johannesburg, have proven valuable in the decision-making process on this topic. It raised awareness on the urgent need to …

Community forestry is a way to combine forest conservation with economic development of forest depending communities. In the Pacific zone of northern Peru, the rural population heavily relies on the endemic dry forest ecosystem as a source of firewood, timber and as grazing area. Bad management, overuse …