A service for the continuous, real-time monitoring of the urban thermalenvironment and development of applications

Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Senior Researcher, co-Leader of Global Urban

Observations and Information Task - Group of Earth Observations

National Observatory of Athens | Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing

Research Centre

Greece

ik@noa.gr @iphigenia_k

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NOA/IAASARS

Participates in numerous European and National projects

NOA hosts and operates the Collaborative Ground

Segment for Sentinel

(Copernicus)

It hosts monitoring

infrastructures and acquisition facilities (X-/L-band stations, MSG-SEVIRI)

provides real-time

observations and services

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Applications: Urban Thermal Environment

4-5 km, 5-15 min,

whole Europe and

Africa

1 km, 5-15 min, all

major European and

African cities,

Greater City area

scale

3. We

turn it

into

4. Local

scale

1. We get

this

image

from our

station

2. We calculate

Temperature

Real-time,

Operational, Online

every 5’ at 1km.

Diurnal variability

http://snf-652558.vm.okeanos.grnet.gr/treasure/portal/

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ATHENS SEPTEMBER 2015 HEATWAVE

September 5th, 2015 | 12:00 UTC September 6th, 2015 | 12:00 UTC

++ NASA is interested ++

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Operational real time service for urban temperatures

at 1km/ 5min resolution

6

London Hamburg

Cairo Cyprus

Barcelona Brussels

Lisbon Mallorca

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Building up added-value applications

Location of ambulance fleet based

on risk (dynamic)

Personalized risk (based on person

and his position)

Identification of near-by

cool places

Energy demand

Applications

Zones of Risk

Prevention

Mitigation strategies

Scenarios

Energy demand-

Blackouts

Heat Wave Risk

Population Age

Income

Buildings

Health

Land Cover

Ancillary data

Land Surface Temp.

Air Temp.

Humidity

Discomfort index

Monitoring

http://snf-652558.vm.okeanos.grnet.gr/treasure/portal/