Abstract

Using the i-Tree software, this paper provides an overview of the ecosystem services of urban trees in Berlin. The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of research studies concerning the ecosystem services of Berlin's urban trees based on the Berlin Geoportal. The purpose of this paper is to show how public cadastral data can be used to assess ecosystem services provided by trees. The modeling of the data is done by the software i-Tree. The paper focuses on defining the requirements for data provision and illustrates the process of data preparation using the Berlin tree cadastre as an example. In addition, an approach to fill in incomplete data sets using linear regression was made. The results of the analysis should highlight which further information on urban trees would be necessary to improve the informative value of future studies and, based on this, to improve the structure of the tree population and to enable the continuous provision of benefits by urban trees.