Urban Resilience and Critical Infrastructure

Urban resilience and critical infrastructure are central to sustaining cities amid disasters, population growth, and environmental pressures while optimizing resources for billions of residents. Earth observation technologies provide vital insights into urban heat islands, land‑use change, infrastructure stress, and structural integrity through missions such as CHIME, LSTM, ROSE‑L, and CO2M. These capabilities support smart city planning, disaster preparedness, and sustainable development, while enabling continuous monitoring of energy grids, transport networks, and water systems. By assessing structural health, tracking deformation, and mapping risks, Earth observation helps prevent cascading failures, maintain operational continuity, reduce downtime, enhance livability and economic vitality, and strengthen overall societal resilience and national security.

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Access and explore the Urban Resilience and Critical Infrastructure datasets to understand how new methods are being developed for next-generation Sentinel missions.

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Urban Land Surface Temperature for Public Health

The objective of this activity is to develop a retrieval algorithm for LST with high temporal and spatial resolution over urban areas aimed at public health applications.

HEATWISE

Objective of the activity is to develop three key urban products that can be generated through the synergistic use of hyperspectral and thermal data of LSTM and CHIME together with S-2, S-3 and ESA’s Next Generations Sentinel Continuation missions.

RAVE

This project assesses the synergistic utility of the upcoming CHIME and ROSE-L Copernicus Expansion Missions for a range of railside vegetation monitoring applications.