Category : Space for Smart Cities

Climate Challenges Space for Smart Cities

Are you comfortable? Monitoring heat stress in cities from space

Remco Timmermans 11/05/2022

Cities experience higher temperatures than their rural surroundings. These higher temperatures can negatively impact human health, including causing cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, as well as heat stroke. It is therefore crucial to lower heat stress in urban environments. Cities are ‘Heat Islands’ An ‘urban heat island (UHI)’ is an urban area that is significantly warmer […]Read More

NEWS Space for Smart Cities

Europe’s 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Announced

Remco Timmermans 28/04/2022

The Commission today announced the 100 EU cities that will participate in the EU Mission for 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030, the so-called Cities Mission. The 100 cities come from all 27 Member States, with 12 additional cities coming from countries associated or with the potential of being associated to Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme […]Read More

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How satellites help cities become smart cities

Katya Rutkovskaya 28/03/2022

Smart cities are cities of a new generation. Smart cities provide their citizens a high standard of living and efficient management, thanks to information technology, and based on a lot of data. An important source for this data for cities is space, where many satellites gather data about the world’s cities around the clock. How […]Read More

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Benefits of Data Driven Innovation for Local Government

Remco Timmermans 09/03/2022

Innovation is one of those modern business buzzwords that everybody knows, but only few can actually put into meaningful practice. This is especially the case in local councils or municipalities, that are rapidly getting access to new large amounts of data about their city or region, but are struggling to use this data to improve […]Read More

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Measuring heat stress in the city from space

Remco Timmermans 25/02/2022

One of the most common terms we hear during the summer when discussing the weather in the city is the Heat Index. While the Heat Index can give you an idea of how dangerous the heat can be, there is another lesser known variable that may give a complete description, known as the Wet Bulb […]Read More

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EO for SDG11: Space Solutions for Sustainable Cities

Remco Timmermans 23/02/2022

This week saw two online events dedicated to space solutions for urban environments. First the Eurisy ‘Space for Cities’ event, focusing on Earth observation to build sustainable and climate resilient cities and communities. This was followed by the urban workshop of the Fire Forum project, which zoomed in on space data user uptake issues in […]Read More

Space for Smart Cities

Smart Cities Project: Creating a market for satellite-based applications

Remco Timmermans 03/08/2021

According to the European Commission, smart cities are places where traditional networks and services are made more efficient with the use of digital and telecommunication technologies for the benefit of its inhabitants and business. Satellite technologies are part of those digital and telecommunication technologies available to us. And while telecommunication (broadcast) and positioning (navigation) are […]Read More