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Ticino Corridor Reforestation

Planting of 85,000 native riparian trees (alder, willow, poplar) along 45 km of the Ticino corridor to restore shading, bank stability, and insect habitat.

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Ticino · HydroBASINS L8: 2050015920
Nov 2025 – ongoing
Parco Lombardo della Valle del Ticino / Politecnico di Milano / EU LIFE Ticino
320 ha · € 1.9M
Sub-basin location
HydroBASINS Level 8 polygon

Sub-basin boundary: HydroBASINS Level 8 (HYBAS_ID 2050015920) · Polygon is approximate at this zoom

Basin Health Impact
Before vs. projected after project contribution
Water QuantityNo signal
Before
51Low
Water Quality+4 pts
Before
60Risk
After
64Risk
Riparian Habitat+11 pts
Before
64Risk
After
75Good
Composite BHS contribution+5 pts

Weighted: Quantity × 0.45 + Quality × 0.20 + Habitat × 0.35

Ground Validation
IoT sensors · Galileo/EGNOS certified
Pavia Soil Moisture Probe
Volumetric Soil Moisture
Galileo ±0.5m
Sentinel-1 VV/VH backscatter
Satellite: 0.22 m³/m³In-situ: 0.24 m³/m³
91% agreement
Po Delta DO Sensor
Chlorophyll-a
Galileo ±0.6m
Sentinel-3 OLCI Chl-a retrieval
Satellite: 11.8 µg/LIn-situ: 12.6 µg/L
94% agreement

In-situ readings from Galileo/EGNOS-certified IoT devices validate satellite-derived indices. High agreement confirms satellite-based BHS scoring for CSRD E3-4 discharge evidence.

Delivery metrics

Budget
€ 1.9M
Area
320 ha
Timeline
Nov 2025 – ongoing
Status
Planned
Delivered
Target: 85,000 trees; 320 ha riparian woodland established
Compliance exports
Two primary live clicks: project + compliance JSON
  • CSRD
    ESRS E3-4Water consumption, basin stress and restoration contribution evidence
  • CSDDD
    Article 8Adverse-impact mitigation programme linked to basin outcomes
  • SBTN
    Step 3 — QuantityFreshwater target-setting inputs at sub-basin level
  • TNFD
    LEAP — LocateNature-risk evidence for geolocated restoration activity
Using live score context
Using live basin score
Audit trail
Replay the evidence lineage for this stewardship project
  1. Project geography
    HydroBASINS Level-8 anchor and project centroid used for repeatable basin-level evidence generation.
    hybas=2050015920
center=8.85000, 45.50000
  2. Evalscript versions
    Pinned, content-addressed evalscripts. Replayable byte-for-byte.
    sentinel2-bhs-combined-v1@static-snapshot
outputs=ndwi,mndwi,ndvi,ndmi,turbidity,chla,bare
  3. Source scenes
    Recent STAC scene IDs attached to the basin score run for audit replay.
    No STAC scene IDs attached
  4. Scoring function
    Basin sub-indices weighted via bhs-v0.5.0.
    quantity*0.45 + habitat*0.35 + quality*0.2
  5. Computation provenance
    Run signature stored with the exported project evidence pack.
    run=static-snapshot · at=2026-04-28T19:55:57.376Z

Partners

Operator
Parco Lombardo della Valle del Ticino
Partner
Politecnico di Milano / EU LIFE Ticino

Basin context

Po Basin
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