Webinar 4: Demystifying space technologies for cities – Managing urban green spaces
Date and time: Wednesday 19 June 2024 at 13:00–14:15 CET
This is the fourth and final edition of a webinar series organised by the EU project SPACE4Cities. The goal of the webinar series is to increase awareness about the potential of space technologies for cities, communities and regions in Europe, provide information on opportunities that space-based technologies could offer to them and explore successful use cases where such technologies are applied to solve cities’ challenges.
Agenda
13:00-13:05: Welcome and intro to webinar series (Alex Gluhak, Open and Agile Smart Cities)
13:05-13:15: “Risk-aware management of urban green space“, Marion Messador, Kayrros
13:15-13:30: “Satellite Perspectives: green spaces, vegetation, and land use dynamics in cities”, Jérôme Helbert, LTU Tech
13:30-13:45: “Helping the green and resilient city with climate simulations and solutions”, Roman Yassinski, The Climate Company
13:45-14:15: Panel discussion with presenters, Q&A and wrap-up (Moderated by Alex Gluhak, Open and Agile Smart Cities)
Details
Green spaces play a crucial role in any city and urban community to ensure a more healthy, balanced and sustainable living environment. For example parks, urban forests, and trees along the streets and riverbanks support urban well-being by providing space for rest, relaxation and exercise, and by keeping temperatures down.
Socially, urban green spaces provide social spaces and areas for recreation and cultural purposes for children grownups and the elderly alike. Environmentally, they minimize air, water, and noise pollution, and may offset greenhouse gas emissions through CO2 absorption. At the same time, they improve resilience in urban areas by counteracting the urban heat island effect, thereby reducing the energy costs of cooling buildings. They also provide attenuation of stormwater, thereby acting as a measure for flood mitigation.
The adequate management of urban greenspaces is however challenging, costly and time-consuming as they cover large urban areas that require continuous upkeep and appropriate interventions.
This session provides case studies and examples of how cities are leveraging solutions based on satellite technologies, AI and other advances to ensure that adequate management of urban green spaces can be provided.