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Session Overview
Location: Big Hall

Date: Monday, 16/Sept/2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Registration Location: Big Hall
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Welcome Session Location: Big Hall Speakers Rune Floberghagen, Head of the Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Department, Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes, ESA – European Space Agency Presentation Francesca Elisa Leonelli, EO Green Transition Data Applications Scientist, ESA
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Opening Session Location: Big Hall Keynote Speakers Petya Pishmisheva, Coordinator, EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy Presentation Pourya Salehi, Head of the Urban Research, Innovation, and Development Team, ICLEI World Secretariat Presentation Dennis Mwaniki, Geospatial Data Expert at Data and Analytics Unit, UN Habitat Presentation Claudia Baranzelli, Programme Manager, Laboratory for Geospatial Analysis, OECD Presentation The Nature Restoration Law in urban areas: implications for the future of earth observation Benjamin Caspar, Coordinator of Urban Nature and Biodiversity Policy. European Commission – DG Environment Cities perspectives Sabrina Alfonsi, Councilor of Agriculture, Environment, and Waste Cycle, City of Rome Markus Annilo, Digital Twin Technology manager, City of Tallinn Moderators Francesca Elisa Leonelli, ESA Marc Paganini, ESA
4:30pm - 6:30pm	Navigating Urban Futures with Earth Observation Location: Big Hall Keynote Speakers From pixels to practice: Bridging urban remote sensing science with urban decision-making Karen Seto, 1. Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography & Urbanization Science, Yale University School of the Environment 2. Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC 5th and 6th Assessment Reports Urban Insights from Space Inge Jonckheere, Head of the Green Solutions Division, Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Department, Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes, ESA – European Space Agency Presentation Panel Discussion Petya Pishmisheva, Coordinator, EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy Karen Seto, Yale University Iacopo Testi, ex MIT SenseableCities Lab, ENEL X, Urban AI Klemens Himpele, CIO, City of Vienna Thomas Kemper, Team Leader GHSL, JRC Moderator Stefanie Lumnitz, ESA

Date: Tuesday, 17/Sept/2024
9:15am - 10:00am	Keynote Speakers Location: Big Hall An expanded climate and innovation agenda: Delivering on human needs beyond optimisation of existing systems Dennis Pamlin, Executive Director/Senior Advisor, NCI/RISE Presentation Too much of existing innovation and climate action are stuck in the 90’s with a static problem approach. The result is that most “solutions” currently take a static and short-term perspective that only optimise existing systems. The result is a situation where much of what is called “climate solutions” threatens global sustainability in the long run and undermines many innovations. Static approaches rely upon a narrow frame of reference - optimizing existing infrastructure and systems towards reducing emissions (carbon tunnel vision). Although emission reduction is essential, it is an approach that tend to look back. Static approaches obstruct scaling the multiple benefits of cross-sectoral innovation and guide action towards superficial carbon accounting rather than systemic changes needed to deliver flourishing lives for all and global sustainability. In contrast a dynamic solution approach is proposed to guide the next generation if climate action and innovation. Here a human needs are at the centre and a future where 10-11 billion can live flourishing lives on a flourishing planet. Leveraging the power of earth observations in support of urban resilience and sustainable urbanization Martyn Clark, Urban Resilience Coordinator at the Group on Earth Observations Rapid urbanization presents a complex landscape of both opportunities and challenges for cities worldwide. International policy frameworks, such as the SDGs, and the New Urban Agenda, emphasize the urgent need to create sustainable, resilient urban environments. GEO, through its focus on Urban Resilience, leverages Earth observations to empower cities to address pressing issues like climate change, infrastructure development, and resource management. By bridging the science-policy divide, GEO develops user-centered solutions that harness the power of Earth observations to build a more sustainable and resilient urban future. Health impacts of urban and transport planning; the role of air pollution, green space, heat and noise Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Director of Urban planning, Environment and Health, ISGlobal, Barcelona Half the world population lives in cities and this is likely to increase to 70% over the next 20 years. Suboptimal urban and transport planning has led to e.g. high levels of air pollution and noise, heat island effects and lack of green space and physical activity and thereby an increase in morbidity and premature mortality. I will discuss the current disease burden in Europe, further data needs and potential urban interventions to reduce the burden using a dataset of nearly 1000 European cities as part of the EU Horizon project funded UBDPolicy project (https://ubdpolicy.eu/)
10:00am - 11:30am	Session 1: Urban heat dynamics and soil sealing assessments for resilient planning Location: Big Hall Session Chairs: Claudia Baranzelli Efren Feliu Torres Opening Efrén Feliu Torres Climate Change Adaptation Manager, TECNALIA Research & Innovation 10 minutes Coupling dynamic cities and climate: the urbisphere project Nektarios Chrysoulakis¹, Jörn Birkmann², Andreas Christen³, Sue Grimmond⁴ 1: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH); 2: University of Stuttgart; 3: University of Freiburg; 4: University of Reading 10 minutes Surface albedo and emissivity for Belgian cities (SuaBe) Jonathan León-Tavares¹, Zhijun Zhen², Nicolas Lauret², Jean Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry² 1: VITO, Belgium.; 2: CESBIO, France. 10 minutes Large scale exploitation of satellite data for the assessment of urban surface temperatures: the EO4UTEMP project Zina Mitraka, Giannis Lantzanakis, Maria Gkolemi, Nektarios Chrysoulakis Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece 10 minutes From Space to lives saved: A Digital Twin for heat-related mortality risk assessment in urban areas Iphigenia Keramitsoglou¹, Klea Katsouyanni², Evangelia Samoli², Alexandra Tragaki³, Eleni Toli⁴, Panagiota Koltsida⁴, Nefta Votsi¹, Evangelos Gerasopoulos¹, Christos Zerefos⁵, Stavros Solomos⁵, Christos Spyrou⁵, Sorin Cheval⁶, Chris T. Kiranoudis^1,7 1: National Observatory of Athens, IAASARS, Greece; 2: National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; 3: Harokopio University, Greece; 4: Athena Research Centre, Greece; 5: Academy of Athens, Greece; 6: National Meteorological Administration, Romania; 7: National Technical University of Athens, Greece 10 minutes Harmonized Pan European time series for monitoring soil sealing Christophe Sannier¹, Gergely Maucha², Eva Ivits³, Joachim Maes⁴, Lewis Dijkstra⁵ 1: GAF AG, Germany; 2: Lechner; 3: European Environment Agency; 4: European Commission DG Regio; 5: European Commission Joint Research Centre 10 minutes The ESA Ulysses project and the exploitation in the Mediterranean area of Soil Sealing products and indicators Daniela Iasillo¹, Vito De Pasquale¹, Paola Di Lauro¹, Luca Congedo², Michele Munafo², Loic Faucqueur³, Konrad Rolland³, Olivier Arino⁴, Walter De Simone¹ 1: Planetek Italia, Italy; 2: Ispra, Italy; 3: CLS, France; 4: ESA ESRIN, Italy
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Session 2: Urban Air Quality, Mobility and Safety monitoring and management Location: Big Hall Session Chairs: Kavitha Muthu Oliver Sanchez Opening Olivier Sanchez Head of Emission & Modelling team of Airparif, France 10 minutes TRIPS: a solution for advanced urban safety management Simonetta Bodojra¹, Alberto Falletta¹, Fabio Limardo¹, Elena Deambrogio² 1: Data Reply, Italy; 2: Città di Torino 10 minutes Evaluating the costs and benefits of satellite imagery resolutions for assessing unpaved road condition Robin Workman TRL The Future of Transport UK 10 minutes THE 'PRIMARY' PROJECT: URBAN AIR QUALITY MONITORING WITH PRISMA HYPERSPECTRAL DATA Davide De Santis¹, Marco Di Giacomo¹, Sarathchandrakumar T. Sasidharan^1,2, Gianmarco Bencivenni¹, Fabio Del Frate¹, Gabriele Curci^3,4, Ana Carolina Amarillo^3,4, Francesca Barnaba⁵, Luca Di Liberto⁵, Cristiana Bassani⁶, Ferdinando Pasqualini⁵, Alessandro Bracci⁵, Silvia Scifoni⁷, Stefano Casadio⁷, Alessandra Cofano⁷, Massimo Cardaci⁷, Daniele Latini⁸, Giorgio Licciardi⁹ 1: Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering, “Tor Vergata” University of Rome, Italy; 2: Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 3: Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy; 4: Center of Excellence in Telesensing of Environment and Model Prediction of Severe events (CETEMPS), Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy; 5: National Research Council - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, CNR-ISAC, Rome, Italy; 6: National Research Council - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, CNR-IIA, Monterotondo, Rome, Italy; 7: Serco Italia S.p.A., Frascati, Rome, Italy; 8: GEO-K s.r.l., Rome, Italy; 9: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Viale del Politecnico snc, 00133 Rome, Italy 10 minutes The CitySatAir Project: Monitoring urban air pollution with satellite data Bas Mijling¹, Philipp Schneider², Paul Hamer², Pau Moreno³, Isadora Jimenez³ 1: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands; 2: Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Kjeller, Norway; 3: LOBELIA Earth S.L., Barcelona, Spain 10 minutes Spatiotemporal imputation and bias correction of Sentinel-3 SYN for intraurban air quality assessment using Generative Adversarial Networks/Deep Learning Ester Pantaleo^1,2, Roberto Cilli¹, Nicola Amoroso^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 10 minutes Earth observation for mental health: exploring the correlation of urbanization, green and blue spaces with UK Biobank cohort data Sören Hese¹, Paul Renner¹, Elli Polemiti², Kerstin Schepanski³, environMENTAL Project Consortium¹ 1: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; 2: Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin; 3: Free University Berlin
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Session 3: Urban energy landscapes and efficiency mapping Location: Big Hall Session Chairs: Stefanie Lumnitz Matthieu Denoux Opening Matthieu Denoux Head of Digital Services, AURA-EE, Regional sustainability agency of the French Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region 10 minutes Pioneering Urban Energy Efficiency - the ESA BEE.AI project Alessandra Feliciotti¹, Mattia Marconcini¹, Francesco Asaro¹, Gianluca Murdaca¹, Emanuele Strano¹, Stefanie Lumnitz² 1: MindEarth SA, Switzerland; 2: European Space Agency, ESRIN 10 minutes SOLAR-DE - Mapping Germany's Rooftop Solar Landscape Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini, Mattia Marconcini, Julian Zeidler, Stefan Dech German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany 10 minutes How space-based solutions can support urban energy decarbonisation Matteo Manieri Telespazio Belgium SRL 10 minutes Zoom in – benefits of a multiscale approach for solar potential analysis Elke Kraetzschmar, Kristin Fleischer, Peter Schauer IABG Geospatial Solutions. Hermann-Reichelt-Str.3. 01109 Dresden (Germany) 10 minutes Space for energy efficiency in smart cities Beatrice Barresi European Space Agency (ESA) 10 minutes Mapping the Energy Transition: EO4Energy's Global Survey of Wind Turbines and Coal Power Plants Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini¹, Mattia Marconcini¹, Cornelia Zygar¹, Zoltan Bartalis² 1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: European Space Agency (ESA), ESRIN
4:30pm - 6:00pm	Session 4: Urban green infrastructure: from vegetation characterisation to strategic resilience planning Location: Big Hall Session Chairs: Francesca Elisa Leonelli Markus Annilo 10 minutes Urban Vegetation characterization from Multispectral and Very High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Fatimatou Coulibaly, Pierre Sicard ACRI-ST, France 10 minutes Navigating Urban Landscapes: Unveiling Green and Blue Infrastructure through Strategic Mapping Raquel Ubach¹, Jaume Fons-Esteve¹, Eva Ivits-Wasser², Mirko Gregor³, Joachim Maes⁴, Lewis Dijkstra⁴ 1: Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; 2: European Environment Agency; 3: Space4Environment; 4: DG REGIO of the European Commission 10 minutes Thermal behavior of large-scale urban parks in global megacities during compound heat and drought events Ilias Agathangelidis, Constantinos Cartalis, Kostas Philippopoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 10 minutes Enhancing urban green spaces through Earth Observation: Integration of super-resolution in sustainable urban planning Mihaela Gheorghe, Teodora Selea, George Boldeanu GMV, Romania 10 minutes Unveiling living urban co-habitats: looking at cities through a species agnostic classification Gabriele Oneto¹, Anne Mimet², Katia Perini¹, Maria Canepa¹, Wolfgang Weisser³ 1: University of Genoa, Italy; 2: University of Angers, France; 3: Technical University of Munich, Germany 10 minutes Species-specific air pollution removal by individual trees and shrubs at city scale Pierre SICARD¹, Fatimatou COULIBALY¹, Ilaria ZAPPITELLI² 1: ACRI-ST, Sophia-Antipolis, France; 2: Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy

Date: Wednesday, 18/Sept/2024
9:15am - 9:30am	Reflections on Day 1 from urban practitioners Location: Big Hall
9:30am - 10:00am	Hackaton MapYourCity AI4EO Location: Big Hall Session Chair: Nicolas Longepe Speakers Caroline Arnold, DKRZ (Germany) Tran Hoang Ba, (Japan) Eric Park and Hagai Raja Sinulingga, TelePIX (South Korea) Award Ceremony Hackaton MapYourCity AI4EO Presentation
10:00am - 11:30am	Session 5: Assessing and Mitigating Urban Hazards: Subsidence, Water Risks, and Flooding Location: Big Hall Session Chairs: Thomas Kemper Petya Pishmisheva 10 minutes How can 13 billion measurements of the ground motion help manage natural hazards in urban areas? Lorenzo Solari EEA, Denmark 10 minutes Present-day and future urban subsidence risk in Italy based on multi-scale satellite InSAR workflows and advanced modelling Francesca Cigna¹, Roberta Bonì², Pietro Teatini³, Roberta Paranunzio¹, Claudia Zoccarato² 1: Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Italy; 2: Department of Science, Technology and Society (STS), University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) Pavia, Italy; 3: Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA), University of Padua (UNIPD), Italy 10 minutes Visualizing the impact of water availability and extreme events - enhancing water risk mapping through future climate change and urbanization scenarios. Frederic Andreas Hebbeker, Chahinaz Ziani Technical University of Applied Science Cologne, Germany 10 minutes Modelling multi-geohazard risk at city scale through satellite InSAR and official open data Giandomenico Mastrantoni^1,2, Claudia Masciulli^1,2, Roberta Marini³, Carlo Esposito^1,2, Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza^1,2, Paolo Mazzanti^1,2,3 1: Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy; 2: Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy; 3: NHAZCA S.r.l., start-up of Sapienza University of Rome, Via Vittorio Bachelet 12, Rome, Italy 10 minutes Fast and generalized flood emulators for high-resolution urban pluvial flooding Dinesh Krishna Natarajan^1,2, Marco Stricker¹, Marlon Nuske¹, Andreas Dengel^1,2 1: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany; 2: University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany 10 minutes Subsidence risk assessment for enhancing urban infrastructure sustainability: A case study in Ravenna, Italy" Hanieh Dadkhah, Divyeshkumar Rana, Giandomenico Mastrantoni, Ebrahim Ghaderpour, Paolo Mazzanti Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Session 6: Global Urban development and dynamics (Global urbanisation - part 1) Location: Big Hall Session Chairs: Marc Paganini Pourya Salehi 10 minutes Monitoring Urbanization's Pulse – the WSF tracker Mattia Marconcini¹, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini¹, Noel Gorelick² 1: German Aerospace Center - DLR, Germany; 2: Google Switzerland 10 minutes The global human settlement layer as a complete framework for research and policy on urban development Michele Melchiorri, Thomas Kemper, Martino Pesaresi JRC, Italy 10 minutes Accurately mapping urban dynamics at global and continental scale based on high-resolution Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 imagery Michael Riffler¹, Armin Leitner¹, Stefan Ralser¹, Loic Faucqueur², Alexandre Pennec², Maximilian Jakasovic³, Yang Li³, Mattia Marconcini⁴, Thomas Esch⁴, Eva Sukenikova¹, Usue Donezar⁵, Manuel Mayr⁵, Michele Melchiorri⁶, Thomas Kemper⁶, Christian Schleicher¹ 1: GeoVille Informations Systems GmbH, Austria; 2: CLS Group, France; 3: Vypno GmbH, Germany; 4: German Areospace Center, DLR, Germany; 5: Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, European Environment Agency; 6: Copernicus Emergency Management Service, Joint Research Centre, European Commission 10 minutes From Space to Place: Earth Observation for Global Urban Sustainability Made Easy Tomas Soukup¹, Pavel Vlach¹, Vojtech Dubrovsky¹, Thomas Esch², Mattia Marconcini² 1: GISAT, Czech Republic; 2: DLR, Germany 10 minutes Nighttime Warming Trends in Cities Across Two Decades Panagiotis Sismanidis¹, Benjamin Bechtel¹, Marzie Naserikia², Negin Nazarian^2,3, Melissa Hart², Iphigenia Keramitsoglou⁴, Darren Ghent⁵ 1: Institute of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany; 2: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; 3: School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; 4: Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece; 5: National Centre for Earth Observation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 10 minutes Where does night light matter? Monika Kuffer¹, Angela Abascal², Alejandro S. De Miguel³, Christopher Kyba⁴, Hector Linares⁵, Franz Hölker⁶, Tobias Degen⁶ 1: University of Twente, ITC, Netherlands, The; 2: Public University of Navarre, Department of Engineering, Pamplona, Spain; 3: Universidad Complutense de Madrid; 4: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences; 5: Stars4All Foundation; 6: Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Session 7: Mapping and modelling urban growth: from informal settlements to SDG indicators monitoring (Global urbanisation - part 2) Location: Big Hall Session Chairs: Zoltan Bartalis Dennis Mwaniki 10 minutes Improved mapping and modelling of urban development for impact assessment Jasper van Vliet VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies, the Netherlands 10 minutes Machine learning urban segmentation using Sentinel-2 and its super resolved version Maximilien Houël SISTEMA GmbH, Austria 10 minutes Earth Observation Time Series for SDG11.3.1 Indicator Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges Yifang Ban¹, Dennis Mwaniki², Robert Ndugwa² 1: KTH; 2: UN Habitat 10 minutes Complementary use of citizen science and EO data for addressing SDG data gaps Dilek Fraisl, Linda See, Ian McCallum, Steffen Fritz International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria 10 minutes User and data-centric artificial intelligence for mapping informal areas (IDEATLAS) Bedru Tareke¹, Paulo Silva Filho¹, Monika Kuffer¹, Claudio Persello¹, Raian V. Maretto¹, Jon Wang¹, Angela Abascal¹, Priam Pillai², Binti Singh³, Juan Manuel D’Attoli⁴, Caroline Kabaria⁵, Juilo Pedrassoli⁶, Patricia Brito⁶, Peter Elias⁷, Elio Villaseñor Garcia⁸, Andrea Ramírez Santiago⁸ 1: University of Twente, ITC, Netherlands, The; 2: Pillai College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai, India; 3: KRVIA, Mumbai, India; 4: National Registry of Informal Settlements, Argentina; 5: APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya; 6: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; 7: University of Lagos, Nigeria; 8: INEGI, Mexico 10 minutes Leveraging AI technologies for informal settlement mapping Sophie Naue, Michael Hathorn, Anand Gajaria UNITAC UN-Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities, Germany
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Closing Session Location: Big Hall

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