Multi-disciplinary survey data for the assessment of regulating and recreational ecosystem services in urban parks under heat and drought conditions

The research group GreenEquityHEALTH provides quantified knowledge on how urban green spaces contribute to the mitigation of climate change induced challenges and challenges from urbanization to improve health, well-being and environmental justice. The project identifies the mediating pathways or direct effects of divers urban green spaces that act to either promote health, encourage healthy behaviours like social interaction or physical activity, or to decrease risk factors such as air pollution or urban heat.

Here we present core data of our interdisciplinary multi-method campaigns that included in-situ stationary and aerial (remote sensing-based) environmental measurements, mobile air quality measurements, and social science-informed surveys, namely, park vistor observations and countings and a questionnaire survey.

List of data and content

• Aarial_survey: digital surface model, orthophoto and thermal infrared images as raster files (*.tif); flight and processing report (*.pdf)
• Air_quality: stationary PM measurement data (*.csv); coordinates (*.txt)
• Meteorology: stationary air temperature and humidity data (*.csv), sensor meta data (*.csv)
• ParkVisitor_Surveys: survey data and questionnaire replies (*.csv), survey sheets (*.docx), questionnaire form (*.pdf)

Data acquisition and processing

For details on the data (e.g. sensors, calibration, survey settings) please refer to the linked publication, incl. Supplementary Material.

Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the City of Leipzig, Department for Urban Green and Waters, for supporting the project. We would like to thank Henrique Miguel Pereira (Head of Research Group Biodiversity Conservation of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig) for providing equipment for the meteorological field campaigns. We also thank Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Geoinformation and Surveying with Lutz Bannehr for conducting the airborne campaigns, Marco Pohle and Helko Kotas (both Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ) for technical support, and Judith Rakowski for support during the field surveys. This work was carried out within the research project ‘Environmental-health Interactions in Cities
(GreenEquityHEALTH) – Challenges for Human Wellbeing under Global Changes’ (2017 to 2022) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), funding code: 01LN1705A.

Related publication
Kabisch, N. et al. (2021). A methodological framework for the assessment of regulating and recreational ecosystem services in urban parks under heat and drought conditions. Ecosystems and People. doi:10.1080/26395916.2021.1958062