1. ik@noa.gr @iphigenia_k
A service for the continuous, real-time monitoring of the urban thermal environment 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
@iphigenia_k

2. 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

3. Applications: Urban Thermal Environment
3. We turn it
into
1. We get this image from our station
2. We calculate Temperature
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
4. Local scale
Real-time, Operational, Online every 5’ at 1km.
Diurnal variability

5. ATHENS SEPTEMBER 2015 HEATWAVE
September 5th, 2015 | 12:00 UTC
September 6th, 2015 | 12:00 UTC
++ NASA is interested ++

6. Operational real time service for urban temperatures at 1km/ 5min resolution
London
Hamburg
Cairo
Cyprus
Barcelona
Brussels
Lisbon
Mallorca

7. 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