Conference Agenda

Applying novel satellite technology to inform design and evaluation of urban Nature Based Solutions.

Nicklas Simonsen, Mads Christensen

DHI, Denmark

UpGreen

Damián Hruban¹, Martin Vokřál², Barbora Májková³

1: World from Space, Czech Republic; 2: ASITIS, Czech Republic; 3: Atregia, Czech Republic

Mapping Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) with night-time satellite imagery in order to help preserve biodiversity

Emma Bousquet, Aurélien Mure, Samuel Busson, Paul Verny, Florian Greffier, Teodolina Lopez

Cerema, France

A new method to map precisely the urban vegetation based on VHR imagery

Emma Bousquet¹, Mathilde Segaud¹, Julien Bouyer¹, Anne Puissant², Nicolas Lagarrigue³, Céline Ciron³, Arnaud Ceyte¹

1: Cerema, France; 2: LIVE-A2S, France; 3: TerraNIS, France

Enhancing urban growth prediction with the Spatio-Temporal Matrix: Case studies from Vietnam, India, and Ivory Coast

Felix Bachofer¹, Zhiyuan Wang¹, Linh Hoang Khanh Nguyen², Pham Gia Tung², Samip Narayan Shrestha¹, Thomas Esch¹, Claudia Kuenzer¹

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: Huê University, International School, Vietnam

How can 13 billion measurements of the ground motion help manage natural hazards in urban areas?

Lorenzo Solari, Joanna Balasis-Levinsen

European Environment Agency, Kongens Nytorv 6, 1050 København, Denmark

Leveraging EO products for the development of an urban planning decision support platform for effective policy-making

Christos Kontopoulos, Efthymios Magkoufis, Eirini Baltzi

Geosystems Hellas, Greece

Characterization of surface Urban Heat Island with Land Surface Temperature and Local Climate Zone using optical and thermal high resolution satellite data

Fatimatou Coulibaly, Tidiane Diouf, Pierre Sicard

ACRI-ST, France

The enhancement of Urban Atlas

Ana Sousa¹, Alice Lhernould², Yoann Courmont², Stefan Ralser³, Michael Rifler³, Adam Pasik³, Javier Becerra Corral⁴, Irina Diaconu⁵, Noemi Marsico⁶, Dimitri Papadakis⁶

1: EEA, Denmark; 2: CLS, France; 3: Geoville, Austria; 4: Cotesa, Spain; 5: Gisbox, Romania; 6: Evenflow, Belgium

Deep learning and smart tracing for transmissiong grid mapping using VHR imagery

Fang Fang, Laurens Hagendoorn, Fiona Gallagher

NEO BV, Netherlands

Let’s park: harnessing Earth Observation and Collaborative Approaches for Urban Green Spaces

Rizos-Theodoros Chadoulis^1,2,3, Natalia Tsamtsouri³

1: Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd, Thermi, Thessaloniki; 2: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki; 3: Let's Park

Integrated analysis of multi-sensor PS-InSAR for landslides monitoring in the Central Apennines, Italy

Claudia Masciulli^1,2, Giandomenico Mastrantoni¹, Marta Zocchi¹, Benedetta Antonielli¹, Paolo Mazzanti^1,2, Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza^1,2

1: Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy; 2: CERI Research Centre on Geological Risks, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy

Localizing urban SDGs indicators for an integrated assessment of urban sustainability: a case study of Hainan province

Sijia Li^1,2, Huadong Guo¹, Zhongchang Sun¹, Zongqiang Liu³

1: International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals; 2: Chengdu University of Technology; 3: Beijing Institute of Satellite Information Engineering

Characterizing global built-up areas: Advanced techniques using dual-pol SENTINEL-1 SAR data

Abhinav Verma¹, Avik Bhattacharya¹, Subhadip Dey², Paolo Gamba³

1: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India; 2: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India; 3: CNIT, Research Unit of the University of Pavia, Italy

Analysis of urban surface temperatures from in-situ, airborne and satellite remote sensors: the case of Berlin

Zina Mitraka¹, Giannis Lantzanakis¹, Maria Gkolemi¹, Dimitris Tsirantonakis¹, Nektarios Chrysoulakis¹, Will Morrison², Daniel Fenner², Andreas Christen², Tobias Reinicke³, Sue Grimmond⁴, Martina Frid⁴, Beth Saunders⁴, Jörn Birkmann⁵, Michael Abrams⁶

1: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece; 2: University of Freigburg, Germany; 3: SatelliteView, United Kingdom; 4: University of Reading, United Kingdom; 5: University of Stuttgart, Germany; 6: NASA JPL, USA

Regional-scale evaluation of bridges in the Netherlands using Multi Temporal InSAR

Valentina Macchiarulo¹, Hao Kuai¹, Pantelis Karamitopoulos⁴, Pietro Milillo^2,3, Giorgia Giardina¹

1: Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; 2: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Texas, United States; 3: Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 4: City of Amsterdam, Program of Bridges and Quay Walls, Team Innovation, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Earth observation in support of EU policies for urban climate change adaptation: a deep dive assessment of the Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation

Mark Dowell¹, Ilaria Gliottone², Candan Eylul Kilsedar², Stewart Bernard³, Orestis Speyer⁴, Marco Gianinetto⁵, Monika Kuffer⁶

1: European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy; 2: Arcadia SIT / European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy; 3: University of Cape Town, Department of Oceanography, South Africa; 4: National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, Greece; 5: Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Italy; 6: University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Netherlands

Innovating together for green urban transitions: Stories from Urban ReLeaf cities

Inian Moorthy¹, Gerid Hager¹, Sandra Brozek¹, Ilia Christantoni², Bárbara Coelho³, João Dinis³, Johanna Doerre⁴, Jennifer Dunn⁵, Nora Gāgane⁶, Viola Marx⁵, Georg Pins⁴, Sabine Skudra⁶, Dimitra Tsakanika², Stephan van Aken⁷, Liesbeth van Holten⁷, Marielle Versteeg⁸

1: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria; 2: DAEM (City of Athens IT Company); 3: EMAC – Empresa Municipal de Ambiente de Cascais; 4: Stadt Mannheim; 5: Dundee City Council; 6: Riga City Council; 7: Provincie Utrecht; 8: Gemeente Utrecht

Assessing urban biodiversity: A multidisciplinary approach

Martí Perpinyà, Claudia Huertas, Thaís Fontenelle

Lobelia Earth, Spain

HeatScape Resolve – UHI Earth observation coupled with urban climate simulation for urban planning

Réka Sárközi¹, László Mucsi¹, Boudewijn van Leeuwen¹, Zalán Tobak¹, Péter Burai², Gergely Hunyadi², Kristóf Horváth¹, Emese Lakatos¹, Szilárd Balázs Likó², Péter Vadnai², Péter Enyedi², Gergely Paulinyi¹, Roland Németh¹

1: Paulinyi & Partners Innovations Ltd., Hungary; 2: Envirosense Hungary Ltd.

Enhancing Earth Observation with synthetic data for urban development challenges

Enes Hisam¹, Teodora Selea³, Rossana Gini¹, David Miraut Andrés², Marcos Fernández Marín⁴, Jesús Gimeno Sancho⁴, Raúl Rodríguez Juárez², Marta Toro Bermejo², Eloy Zafra Santos²

1: GMV NSL, United Kingdom; 2: GMV Innovating Solutions, Spain; 3: GMV Innovating Solutions, Romania; 4: Univeristy of Valencia, Spain

HeatAdapt: Monitoring and mitigating heat hotspot areas

Matthias Sammer, Michael Riffler, Katja Kustura

GeoVille Information Systems GmbH, Austria, Austria

Application of EO-based standardized services to overcome urban challenges

Steven Braakman, Cornelis Valk, Jasper Nierop

NEO BV

Utilising Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) for urban tree structure characterization and its impact on modelled human thermal comfort

Todi Daelman¹, Hans Verbeeck¹, Frieke Vancoillie¹, Matthias Demuzere^1,2

1: Ghent University, Department of environment, Belgium; 2: B-Kode VOF, Belgium

Monitoring and detection of urban developments through integration of multiple satellite image sources (radar and optical): A case study in Turkey

Tamer Özalp

Researchturk Space Co., Turkiye

Leveraging quasi-continental Sentinel-1 InSAR time series and authoritative groundwater data to assess drivers of land subsidence in Mexican cities

Francesca Cigna¹, Deodato Tapete²

1: Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy; 2: Italian Space Agency (ASI), Via del Politecnico s.n.c., 00133 Rome, Italy

SatLCZ: a method to study and characterise Urban Heat Island using VHR images

Benjamin Piccinini¹, Julien Bouyer², Teodolina Lopez^1,3, Dominique Hébrard⁴

1: Cerema, Direction Occitanie; 2: Cerema, Research TEAM; 3: Cerema, Research Team ENDSUM; 4: Direction Départementale des Territoires - Haute-Garonne

ONEKANA: Modelling thermal inequalities in African urban areas through EO and AI for enhanced climate resilience

Angela Abascal¹, Sally Sampson², Sabine Vanhuysse³, Jon Wang², Stefanos Georganos⁴, Ignacio García¹, Monika Kuffer²

1: Public University of Navarre, Department of Engineering, Pamplona, Spain; 2: University of Twente, ITC, The Netherlands; 3: Universit ́e libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Department of Geosciences, Environment and Society, Brussels, Belgium; 4: Karlstad University, Environmental & Life Sciences Geomatics, Karlstad, Sweden

Sentinel-2-based long-term urban change monitoring in post-earthquake scenarios

Giorgia Guerrisi¹, Elisabetta Lamboglia^2,1, Stefania Bonafoni³, Fabio Del Frate¹

1: "Tor Vergata" University of Rome, Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering, Rome, Italy; 2: European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), The Netherlands; 3: Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Exploitation of satellite data to evaluate Digital Twins of Coastal Urban Areas

Roberta Paranunzio¹, Beatrice Carlini¹, Elisa Adirosi¹, Sabina Angeloni¹, Andrea Rucci², Giovanni Serafino², Ivan Boscaino², Attilio Vaccaro², Luca Baldini¹

1: Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Italy; 2: M.B.I. S.r.l, Pisa, Italy

Challenges in High-Resolution Biotic and Abiotic Driver Acquisition in Urban Environments

Lars Groeneveld¹, Alexander Damm-Reiser^1,2

1: Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

Spatiotemporal imputation and bias correction of Sentinel-3 SYN for intraurban air quality assessment using Generative Adversarial Networks/Deep Learning.

Ester Pantaleo^1,2, Cilli Roberto¹, Amoroso Nicola^1,2, Alessandro Fania^1,2, Mariella Aquilino³, Marica De Lucia^3,4, Sabino Maggi³, Silvana Fuina³, Cristina Tarantino³, Francesco Carbone³, Nicola Pirrone³, Vincenzo Campanaro⁵, Francesca Intini⁵, Angela Morabito⁵, Alessandra Nocioni⁵, Ilenia Schipa⁵, Annalisa Tanzarella⁵, Maria Adamo³, Alfonso Monaco^1,2, Roberto Bellotti^1,2

1: Università degli Studi di bari "Aldo Moro", Italy; 2: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sede di Bari, Italy; 3: Istituto sull'Inquinamento Atmosferico. CNR - IIA, Bari, Italy; 4: Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy; 5: Agenzia Nazionale per la Protezione Ambientale

Building Anomaly Detection with Self-supervised Learning. Case Study: The City of Bucharest, Romania

Corneliu Octavian Dumitru¹, Ridvan Kuzu¹, Leonardo Bagaglini², Filippo Santarelli²

1: Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center(DLR), Germany; 2: e-GEOS, Italy

Urban Exploration Using Satellite and Medical Data

Corneliu Octavian Dumitru¹, Liviu Bîlteanu²

1: Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute of Oncology Prof. Al. Trestioreanu, Romania

Estimating Land Subsidence dynamics on Rapidly Developing Coastal Urban Environments, Case of Douala City in Cameroon.

Gergino Chounna Yemele¹, Philip Minderhoud^1,2,3, Leonard Ohenhen⁴, Pietro Teatini¹

1: University of Padova, Italy; 2: Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands; 3: Deltares Research Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands; 4: Virginia Tech University, USA

Multi-Hazard Building Damage Detection from Very-High-Resolution Satellite Imagery with a Disaster-Adaptive Network

Sebastian Hafner¹, Sebastian Gerard¹, Paul Borne-Pons^1,2, Yifang Ban¹, Josephine Sullivan¹

1: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; 2: CentraleSupélec (Université Paris-Saclay), Paris, France

Data2Resilience: Data-driven Urban Climate Adaption for Dortmund

Panagiotis Sismanidis, Charlotte Hüser, Luise Weickhmann, Jonas Kittner, Benjamin Bechtel

Institute of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

A Remote Sensing Case Study in Urban Heat Island Information Product Development, Dissemination and Usage for Sargodha City in Pakistan

Christoff Fourie, Christophe Sannier, Fabian Enssle

GAF AG, Germany

Algorithm hosting and Cloud processing of multi-mission EO data with Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform

Mauro Arcorace, Fabrice Brito, Fabrizio Pacini, Pedro Gonçalves

Terradue, Italy

Radial analysis of urban effects on tree phenology timings in Berlin

Dimitris Tsirantonakis^1,2, Nektarios Chrysoulakis¹, Andreas Christen², Sue Grimmond³, Joern Birkmann⁴

1: Remote Sensins Lab, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece; 2: Chair of Environmental Meteorology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; 3: Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK; 4: Institute of Spatial and Regional Planning (IREUS), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Empowering Sustainable Urban Development through Digital Twin Technology: The CITYNEXUS project

Mattia Marconcini¹, Alessandra Feliciotti¹, Francesco Asaro¹, Ludovico Lemma¹, Alessandro Austoni¹, Emanuele Strano¹, Simone Fratini², Andrea Altenkirch², Josselin Stark²

1: MindEarth s.r.l., Italy; 2: Solenix Engineering GmbH, Germany

Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience: Leveraging Machine Learning for Urban Land Use Change Monitoring

Nicolò Taggio¹, Vincenzo Massimi¹, Raffaele Nutricato², Davide Oscar Nitti², Matteo Simone¹

1: Planetek Italia s.r.l., Italy; 2: Geophysical Applications Processing srl, Italy

Capacity Building activities for Asian Development Bank to promote the use of the EO services in developing Countries

Vincenzo Massimi¹, Giulio Ceriola¹, Nicolò Taggio¹, Raffaele Nutricato², Davide Oscar Nitti², Daniela Drimaco¹

1: Planetek Italia s.r.l., Italy; 2: Geophysical Applications Processing srl, Italy

Evaluation of the aging conditions of pavement from satellite in the municipality of Milan

Walter De Simone, Giulio Ceriola, Sergio Samarelli

Planetek Italia s.r.l., Italy

Leveraging Earth Observation to support the strategic activation of Just Nature-based solutions in urban areas

Luca Demarchi¹, Anna Maria Deflorio¹, Vincenzo Laurino¹, Giulio Ceriola¹, Isabella Siclari², Jessica Balest², Pietro Zambelli³, Daniela Iasillo¹

1: Planetek Italia s.r.l., Italy; 2: Eurac Research, Italy; 3: SynapsEES, Italy

Assessing Urban NBS efficiency for heat island effect mitigation using Super-Resolved EO data and in-situ sensors

Efthymios Papachristos, Stylianos Kossieris, Panagiotis Michalis, Katerina Karagiannopoulou, Georgios Tsimiklis, Angelos Amditis

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece

Building Climate Resilience: Utilizing Copernicus Land Monitoring Service High-Resolution-Layer Non-Vegetated Land Cover Characteristics for Urban Adaptation Strategies

Christian Schleicher¹, Eva Poglitsch¹, Tanja Gasber¹, Michael Riffler¹, Armin Leitner¹, Stefan Ralser¹, Carlos Dewasseige², Loic Faucquer², Manuel Mayr³

1: GeoVille Information Systems and Data Processing GmbH; 2: Collecte Localisation Satellites; 3: European Environment Agency

Urban Planning and Simulation Through Enhanced GAN-based Multispectral Satellite Imagery

Paolo De Piano, Giovanni Giacco, Mattia Rigiroli

Latitudo 40, Italy

Well-Being Urban Areas classification from space: effects of UHI and air pollution

Dario Cappelli, Davide De Santis, Daniele Settembre, Fabio Del Frate

Tor Vergata, University of Rome, Italy

ASI’s “Innovation for Downstream Preparation for Science – Sustainable Cities”: novel user-driven EO-based products for urban climate and resilience to geohazards in metropolitan cities

Deodato Tapete, Patrizia Sacco, Mario Siciliani de Cumis, Alessandro Ursi, Maria Virelli

Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Italy

Atlantic.SENSE: towards an integrated geospatial intelligence solution

Caio Fonteles, Bruno Marques, Ana Oliveira, Francisco Campuzano, Inês Girão, Paula Salge, Pedro Almeida, Renato Mendes, Sofia Aguiar, Tiago Garcia, Ana Almeida, Artur Costa, Luísa Barros, Nuno Lourenço

CoLAB +Atlantic, Portugal

Spatial signatures from space: Predicting spatial signatures using Sentinel-2 imagery and foundation models

Antje Barbara Metzler¹, Martin Fleischmann^1,2, Dani Arribas-Bel^1,3

1: The Alan Turing Institute, United Kingdom; 2: Department of Social Geography and Regional Planning, Charles University, Czechia; 3: Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, UK

EO-based solutions for natural Hazard and Risk reduction in the Italian Urban context: experience and examples toward an Urban Digital Twin

Gabriele Murchio, Manuela Ferri, Monica Palandri, Marco Corsi, Lucia Luzietti, Domenico Grandoni, Alessia Tricomi, Cecilia Sciarretta

e-GEOS SpA, Italy

Why Land Surface Temperature Data may not be informative for Urban Climate Adaptation Monitoring and Policy

Benjamin Bechtel¹, TC Chakraborty², Simone Kotthaus³, Scott Krayenhoff⁴, Alberto Martilli⁵, Negin Nazarian⁶, Panagiotis Sismanidis⁷, James Voogt⁸

1: Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; 2: Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Lab, United States; 3: École Polytechnique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), France; 4: School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Canada; 5: Atmospheric Modelling Group, CIEMAT, Spain; 6: School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia; 7: Bochum Urban Climate Lab, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; 8: Department of Geography and Environment, Western University, Canada

LifeCoolCity: two spatial scopes one goal

Robert Migas, Dominik Kopeć, Łukasz Sławik

MGGP Aero, Poland

Green Cities: Harnessing Nature and Community for Urban Sustainability in Europe

Domiziana Ferrari

Consultant, Italy

Assessing the impact of Nature Based Solutions for storm water regulation coupling EO data with in-situ sensors

Stylianos Kossieris, Efthymios Papachristos, Panagiotis Michalis, Katerina Karagiannopoulou, Georgios Tsimiklis, Angelos Amditis

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece

Multi-scale evaluation of heat-related vulnerabilities in the urban environment

Maria Kazmukova

Prague City Hall, Czech Republic