Urban Sky - Satellite-based planning and analysis applications for climate-neutral and resilient cities
Short Description
Starting point / motivation
Cities and municipalities are facing major challenges in the areas of urban and neighbourhood development, mobility and spatial energy planning in the face of climate change, emission targets and climate neutrality.
As pioneers of the energy and mobility transition towards climate neutrality, they need analysis, planning and decision-making processes and services that provide a needs-based decision-making basis for prioritising and justifying the necessary measures and activities.
Contents and goals
With the involvement of the identified stakeholders, the Urban Sky research project will carry out a needs and potential analysis to identify and analyse the various possible uses of satellite data and applications for urban analysis, planning and development processes. In addition, the relevant legal and normative frameworks will be identified and analysed, and recommendations for necessary adaptations will be developed.
On this basis, concepts for suitable satellite-based services (energy-space and urban planning as well as neighbourhood development and urban mobility) will be developed in consultation with stakeholders. Measures to improve the timeliness and temporal resolution of the planning bases, to extend the spatial coverage and possible thematic extensions will be investigated, and the legal framework and the use of cloud technologies will be analysed and evaluated.
Methods
The project examines how the planning tools currently used operationally by cities and municipalities, such as zoning plans, can be supplemented with satellite-based information. The focus is on enhancing these tools by combining them with satellite applications, in particular with the COPERNICUS Land Monitoring Services.
In this context, issues such as land consumption, land use, energy spatial planning or the identification of unused urban or natural heat sources will be addressed. The aim is also to bring together creative ideas, develop them with stakeholders and test their feasibility and implementation. An assessment of the added value for cities, the market potential and the research needs, as well as a categorisation and prioritisation of the services will lead to recommendations for action.
An important function is the ongoing dissemination of the project status and results: stakeholders and associated partners are informed directly about the Vienna Geospace Hub Innovation Lab, but other interested parties are also addressed through information material and specialist publications, presentations at specialist conferences and events.
The aim is to encourage potential users of the results to implement and use the services developed in the project and to initiate follow-up projects.
Expected results
A key outcome of Urban Sky is the structured processing of the potential of satellite technology in a study that identifies and analyses existing satellite applications in cities (national, international) and checks for complementarity with existing geodata sources/offerings.
The study is complemented by a review of legislation and guidelines and the development of recommendations for action as well as the conception of 10 future applications and a Space4Cities roadmap for direct implementation or as a basis for RTI measures.
Project Partners
Project management
AIT Austrian institute of Technology GmbH
Project or cooperation partners
- JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
- Tech Meets Legal GmbH
- UIV Urban Innovation Vienna GmbH
Contact Address
AIT Austrian institute of Technology GmbH
Mag. Martin Jung
Giefinggasse 4
A-1210 Vienna
Tel.: +43 (505) 50 3363
E-mail: martin.jung@ait.ac.at
Web: www.ait.ac.at