The impact of spatial resolutions on nature-based solution suitability mapping for Europe

Ommer, J., Neumann, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3244-2578, Vranić, S., Kalas, M., Leo, L. S., Di Sabatino, S. and Cloke, H. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1472-868X (2024) The impact of spatial resolutions on nature-based solution suitability mapping for Europe. Applied Sciences, 14 (11). 4608. ISSN 2076-3417 doi: 10.3390/app14114608

Abstract/Summary

Flooding events, like in Germany in 2021, highlight the need for re-naturalising banks of rivers and streams to naturally mitigate future flooding. To identify potential areas for NatureBased Solutions (NBS), the NBS Toolkit—a decision-support tool for Europe—was developed within the H2020 OPERANDUM project. The tool builds on suitability mapping, which is progressively adopted for pre-assessing areas for Nature-Based Solutions. The NBS Toolkit operates with European open-source data, which is available at different spatial resolutions. In this study, we performed a GIS-based analysis to examine the impact of different resolution data on the resulting suitability maps. The results suggest that for large-scale measures such as riparian forest buffers, coarser resolutions are sufficient and may save processing time and capacities. However, fine resolution datasets can bring added value to urban suitability mapping and are of greater importance for small-scale, local Nature-Based Solutions.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/116755
Identification Number/DOI	10.3390/app14114608
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Geography and Environmental Science Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher	MDPI
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