Coming soon: the 15th SCO France Quarterly Meeting

Published on 06/11/2024

From flooding to heat islands, cities are on the front line of the effects of climate change. On Thursday 12 December 2024, tune in to the fifteenth "SCO France Quarterly" to find out how VHR satellite data can help cities reduce their vulnerability to these phenomena, which are undoubtedly intensifying.

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Flooding and heat islands both have harmful consequences and increase inequalities. © Getty Images

Already home to 55% of the world's population, and soon to be more, cities are making a significant contribution to climate change, accounting for almost three quarters of total emissions, but they are also suffering the impacts.

In fact, while adapting to climate change is essential for the well-being of their inhabitants, it is just as important for the global fight against climate change, as centers of innovation and solutions. Spatial data is becoming increasingly effective in this area, particularly in terms of Very High Resolution (VHR).

On Thursday 12 December 2024 from 10.30 am to 12 noon, take part in the fifteenth Quarterly Meeting of Space for Climate Observatory and discover three SCOlutions that use VHR space data to help cities become more resilient to flooding and heat islands.
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The day programme

Preamble: What opportunities will tomorrow's space missions offer? The arrival of the VEGA-C and Ariane-6 launchers opens the door to new missions such as the Copernicus Sentinels to ensure operational continuity, missions operated by EUMETSAT, scientific missions under ESA's Earth Explorer programme, as well as commercial missions. An overview of these future missions will present the opportunities they offer for the SCO.
Pléaides4UrbanFlood: Against a backdrop of increasing rainfall, P4UF prototypes a service for a priori assessment of the susceptibility of an urban environment to flooding through the production of risk maps. Its added value lies in obtaining urban topography (buildings and vegetation) and physics (waterproofing), based exclusively on monoscopic VHRS imagery.
💡P4UF: start-up in situ - 11 March 2024
Sat4BDNB: this particularly innovative project has implemented nationwide indicators of urban overheating, the associated vulnerability of the population and an assessment of mitigation strategies. The results, established using spatial data for albedo and land cover, are freely available in the National Buildings Database (BDNB).
💡Cities : Sat4BDNB operationalizes albedo production on a national scale - 26 March 2024
ALTELYS: In response to rising urban temperatures, ALTELYS is implementing real-time mapping of urban heat islands by combining data from connected sensors and satellite data, with the special feature of taking into account both indoor and outdoor building temperatures. To be as generic as possible, the project is being tested in the cities of Rennes in France and Presidente Prudente in Brazil.
💡 ALTELYS, combating urban heat islands - 23 August 2024

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Launched in June 2021, the SCO France Quarterly will be a regular meeting to bring the community together and enable each project to showcase its progress, inspire others and create synergies.

🎥 You can watch videos of previous quarterly events here.