The SPACE4Cities project organises a webinar about the potential and benefits of space-based technologies for cities, communities and regions.
This is the first edition of a webinar series organised by the EU project SPACE4Cities. The goal of these webinar series is to increase the awareness about the potential of space technologies for cities, communities and regions in Europe, provide information on opportunities that space-based technologies could offer them and explore successful use cases where such technologies are applied to solve cities’ challenges.
The first session will be of introductory nature and set the scene for subsequent deep dives into space technologies for specific challenge areas. The webinar will be recorded and made available to registered participants after the webinar. See full agenda below. People of all backgrounds, ages and interests are welcome.
Event details
Europe has made significant investments into space technologies for navigation and positioning (e.g Galileo) or for earth observation (Copernicus). These systems are readily accessible through the EU Agency for Space Programme (EUSPA) and provide rich sources of data and services that conveniently cover large geographic areas across Europe.
Data observed by space technologies can conveniently augment existing geo-spatial data sets to improve decision making and deliver new insights that have not been available before or are difficult to obtain at scale. Services enabled by enhanced navigation and positioning capabilities can improve how fleets and public services can be coordinated in different situations or how assets and logistical processes can be managed in urban and rural areas.
While cities and communities are used to working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), their use of space technologies so far has been rather limited. This is partially due to a lack of understanding what space technologies can offer to them together with recent innovations that are emerging from the use of these.
As a result, there are many missed opportunities for cities to take advantage of these capabilities to solve difficult challenges they are currently facing be it urban space management and mobility, disaster response, better use of constraint resources or net-zero transition. Space technologies provide the potential to make cities and communities more sustainable and resilient.
Agenda
13:00-13:05: Welcome and intro to webinar series (Alex Gluhak, Open and Agile Smart Cities & Communities)
13:05-13:15: Introduction to the SPACE4Cities project (Renske Martijnse-Hartikka, Forum Virium Helsinki)
13:15-13:30: Satellite technologies offered by the EU Agency for Space Programme (Catalina Rodriguez, Aerospace Valley)
13:30-13:50: Market for space-based solution for urban environment, applications and benefits (Alan Mandrillon, Aerospace Valley and Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Forum Virium Helsinki)
13:50-14:00: Discussion, Q&A and wrap-up (Moderated by Alex Gluhak, Open and Agile Smart Cities & Communities)