Satellites For Urban Management & Smart Cities

By 2050 two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas, with significant concentrations of people in 50 or more mega-cities around the planet. But many of the fastest growing cities of the world are currently relatively unplanned urban settlements. The rapid pace of change poses challenges to urban planners in ensuring efficient city infrastructure management, and the need for accurate information and insights requires a timely flow of actionable data from Earth Observation satellites.

Traditional mapping methods can struggle to keep up with such rapid changes, preventing successful sustainable ‘smart city’ development. Geospatial intelligence offers new answers to old problems of how to manage sustainable urban development and meet the ever-increasing demand from city-based populations. Such developments, in any part of the world, can now be most effectively and affordably monitored using a new generation of commercial satellites and geospatial data analytics to support urban zoning, population density mapping and planning the cities of the future.

For today’s urban planners land use geospatial intelligence is an invaluable decision-support tool for planning local and national government and related services, whether it is housing provision, traffic management, city infrastructure management or law enforcement.

Sample Applications:
• Zoning and urban planning
• 3D modelling including digital city creation
• City infrastructure modelling
• Carbon footprint, pollution and traffic analysis
• Security reviews and law enforcement planning

For more information please call us on +44 (0) 333 433 0015 or email us at info@earthi.co.uk.