Actionable Data space for Urban Climate Adaptation and related socio-ecological, local Transformation

Maintaining and improving infrastructure and services to boost resilience has become an increasingly important challenge for cities, particularly in light of advancing climate change. Evidence-based policies and data-driven knowledge are needed to implement necessary measures, such as protecting infrastructure or cooling and greening urban open spaces, in the most targeted and sustainable way possible. In Vienna, this knowledge is currently obtained through very time-consuming and costly in-situ monitoring measures. As these are often carried out manually, many only occur at certain times of the year. This results in a great deal of imprecision in the analyses.

The aim of this project is to exploit the possibility of high-frequency monitoring with the help of satellite data for monitoring-intensive areas of urban planning, based on selected use cases: infrastructure safety, green space monitoring and heat monitoring. This will enable the city administration to take a more proactive role in protecting infrastructure and combating global warming in the event of natural disasters, including events similar to the recent flooding in eastern Austria.