Abstract

The urban community faces a significant obstacle in effectively utilising Earth Observation (EO) intelligence, particularly the Copernicus EO program of the European Union, to address the multifaceted aspects of urban sustainability and bolster urban resilience in the face of climate change challenges. In this context, here we present the efforts of the CURE project, which received funding under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme, to leverage the Copernicus Core Services (CCS) in supporting urban resilience. CURE provides spatially disaggregated environmental intelligence at a local scale, demonstrating that CCS can facilitate urban planning and management strategies to improve the resilience of cities. With a strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement, CURE has identified eleven cross-cutting applications between CCS that correspond to the major dimensions of urban sustainability and align with user needs. These applications have been integrated into a cloud-based platform known as DIAS (Data and Information Access Services), which is capable of delivering reliable, usable and relevant intelligence to support the development of downstream services towards enhancing resilience planning of cities throughout Europe.

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Title
Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe
Author
Chrysoulakis, Nektarios 1 ; Ludlow, David 2 ; Mitraka, Zina 1 ; Somarakis, Giorgos 1 ; Khan, Zaheer 2 ; Lauwaet, Dirk 3 ; Hooyberghs, Hans 3 ; Feliu, Efrén 4 ; Navarro, Daniel 4 ; Feigenwinter, Christian 5 ; Holsten, Anne 6 ; Soukup, Tomas 7 ; Dohr, Mario 8 ; Marconcini, Mattia 9 ; Holt Andersen, Birgitte 10 

 Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Remote Sensing Lab, Heraklion, Greece (GRID:grid.511961.b) 
 University of the West of England, Bristol, UK (GRID:grid.6518.a) (ISNI:0000 0001 2034 5266) 
 Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium (GRID:grid.6717.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 2034 1548) 
 TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Derio, Spain (GRID:grid.13753.33) (ISNI:0000 0004 1764 7775) 
 Universitaet Basel, Basel, Switzerland (GRID:grid.6612.3) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 0642) 
 PIK, Potsdam Institut Fuer Klimafolgenforschung, Potsdam, Germany (GRID:grid.4556.2) (ISNI:0000 0004 0493 9031); Bauhaus Earth, Berlin, Germany (GRID:grid.4556.2) 
 Gisat S.R.O., Prague, Czech Republic (GRID:grid.425074.0) 
 GeoVille Informationssysteme Und Datenverarbeitung GMBH, Innsbruck, Austria (GRID:grid.425029.8) (ISNI:0000 0004 1783 7341) 
 DLR, Deutsches Zentrum Für Luft- Und Raumfahrt, Weßling, Germany (GRID:grid.7551.6) (ISNI:0000 0000 8983 7915) 
10  CWare Aps, Copenhagen, Denmark (GRID:grid.7551.6) 
Pages
16251
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2869407738
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.