Workshop: Smart cities, UHI and urban green (GIB)

An introductory webinar was followed by this workshop aiming at getting a hands-on experience with the data that is used to assess green infrastructure and heat islands in the urban environment.

Project work: Improving sustainability of cities to storm and water (GIB)

EO4GEO Project work

This report is a part of the training actions within the Smart cities subsector. The report addresses the problem with flooding in urban areas connected to short-term, intense rainfall events, or cloudbursts. This report shows how satellite derivatives and Copernicus data can be used to model the impact of these events. 

Organizers: Geografiska Informationsbyrån (GiB)

Teacher: Greger Lindeberg, GIB

Student: Jo Santiago

Language: English




Webinar: Smart cities, UHI and urban green (GIB)

This is an introductory webinar adressing the issue of urban heat and urban heat islands, and more specifically how to use EO-derived surface temperature maps to identify areas prone to heat stress in the urban environment. The webinar contains mostly non-technical aspects and targets planners on different levels in cities or municipalities, Climate adaption coordinators, GIS technicians, researchers, and ecologists.

Webinar: Evaluation and planning of urban green structures (GIB)

This webinar is focused on the use of EO and GIS data for management and analysis of urban green structures.


The urban green infrastructure provides a number of important ecosystem services to city habitants. The webinar consists of a theoretical background on green infrastructure and ecosystem services, but also real-world cases exemplified by an extensive urban development planned north of Stockholm metropolitan area.

Participants will learn more about the use of EO and GIS tools, urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services.

The webinar is mainly non-technical and targets planners on different levels in cities or municipalities but also Climate adaption coordinators, GIS technicians, researchers and ecologists.



Webinar: Identification of heat islands to support city planning (GIB)

This is a webinar for city planners about Urban Heat Islands and the importance of their identification in a spatial planning context. The webinar introduces the EO surface temperature maps, with their potential and their limitations.

This webinar is developed within the Smart cities task in the EO4GEO project. The webinar addresses the issue of urban heat and urban heat islands, and more specifically how to use EO-derived surface temperature maps to identify areas prone to heat stress in the urban environment. It presents a theoretical background on urban heat and how to obtain information from satellite sensors.

Together with this, a real-world case is presented from the city of Stockholm, presenting the usage of surface temperature maps for the identification of temperature hot-spots within the city, along with spatial planning information.

Participants will learn more about EO, urban heat, surface temperature, mitigation of heat in a spatial planning context.

The webinar is mainly non-technical and targets planners on different levels in cities or municipalities, Climate adaption coordinators, GIS technicians, researchers, and ecologists.