An Investigation of Oxygen Need Based on Green Open Space in Indonesia University of Education (UPI) Campus Bandung

Abstract

Oxygen is an essence energy supporting the life for all of ecological unit. Since the ecological unit can provide O2 for its components, thus it can be apprised a balance condition and also that condition must be consider to Campus UPI. The objectives of the research are to find out Green Open Space (GOS) condition in UPI College, to estimate balance situation between consumption of the O2 and the production based on GOS. The methods which are used to calculate the balance state are comparing the both people and vehicles O2 consumption and the production of O2. Standard demand of the oxygen is utilized to calculate the person’s oxygen need per day. Furthermore, Maximum likelihood Classification are used to derive GOS and the Allometric and Nowak equation is applied to estimate both biomass and the O2 production. The result shows that total areas of GOS in UPI are about 158.774,57 m2 or only 42,59%. Likewise, based on the GOS area, it can be calculated that approximately 2.673.399,60 kg/year UPI produce the O2. In addition, balance condition show that UPI has deficit oxygen production about