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CITYNEXT – AI-Driven Insights for Sustainable Urban Growth and Climate Resilience

Prime company: MindEarth (CH)

The CITYNEXT project is funded under ESA’s FutureEO program, through the call for “Industrialization of AI Methods for Decision Intelligence in Climate and Security Applications”, which supports the development of AI methods for decision intelligence in climate and security applications. CITYNEXT is an advanced AI-powered solution aimed at predicting urban growth, and related mobility patterns, …

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SUP FCP HIGH-RESOLUTION ENHANCED ANALYSIS TOOL FOR URBAN HYPERSPECTRAL AND INFRARED SATELLITE EVALUATION (HEATWISE)

Prime company: BROCKMANN CONSULT GMBH (DE)

Objective of the activity is to develop three key urban products that can be generated through the synergistic use of hyperspectral and thermal data of LSTM and CHIME together with S-2, S-3 and ESA’s Next Generations Sentinel Continuation missions. Specifically, the products are: Maps of the thermal properties of Urban Materials; Advanced Local Climate Zone …

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UpGreen: Development and Verification of Urban Analytics

Prime company: World from Space (CZ)

The UpGreen project responds to ESA’s call Development and Verification of Urban Analytics with the aim of generating actionable information to make the urban environment more sustainable and resilient. With cities facing intensified impacts of climate change, the demand for innovative solutions to manage urban green spaces has never been higher. Traditional methods fall short …

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URBIS24

September 16, 2024 - September 18, 2024
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

Background The URBIS24 Workshop will gather a diverse community of urban policymakers, Earth Observation researchers, service providers and various end-users. Taking place at ESA/ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, during September 16–18, 2024, this event will offer an insightful exploration of urban challenges and innovative EO-integrated solutions. URBIS24 will consist of presentations from invited speakers addressing key urban …

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URBANA (URBan ANAlytics)

Prime company: GMATICS SRL (IT)

The URBANA (URBan ANAlytics) project has the objective of developing various innovative analytics for enhancing the urban planning and analysis of urban environmental parameters and their impacts on people and infrastructures in urban areas. The URBANA project is led by GMATICS and funded and promoted by the European Space Agency (ESA). The consortium includes a …

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From space to soil

Soil sealing, caused by urban development, poses serious environmental threats, from flooding to biodiversity loss, to exacerbated urban heat island effects. Soil sealing maps – at 10m resolution – along the entire Mediterranean coastline, spanning the period 2018-2022, have been generated from Sentinel-2 data within the Ulysses project, a Mediterranean Regional Initiative Land activity. In …

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ESA EO4Health User Forum 2024

January 15, 2024 @ 11:00 - January 16, 2024 @ 17:00 CET

The European Space Agency, in the context of EO Science for Society, is organising the EO4Health User Forum. The User Forum aims at reviewing the latest advances in the use of Earth Observation (EO) technology for global health, exploring the potential offered by the existing and upcoming EO satellites together with advanced modelling, in situ …

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RepreSent: Non-supervised representation learning for Sentinels

Prime company: DLR – GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DE)

The main objective of the RepreSent project is to capitalize on the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and Earth observation (EO) by exploiting the non-supervised learning paradigms. In this context, it is essential to come up with non-supervised learning-based solutions for impactful use cases that use unlabeled EO data. The project started on April 1st, …

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Training and Education

Free online EO learning for everyone

Most recent add-on to the collection of online MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) dedicated to Earth observation data, techniques and applications is Land in Focus, launched last 4 October. This MOOC, funded by ESA, has been developed by experts from various internationally renowned institutes such as EOS Jena, WUR Wageningen, RUB Bochum, FSU Jena, Sinergise, …

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