Satellite-based Emergency Notification System to Support Cities During Extreme Temperature Events

Remote sensing of urban areas can provide valuable data about the function of cities. The considerable technological improvements of the last decade provide new opportunities to use such data and open the way for the development of new applications and services. To that end, this work discusses the use of satellite thermal data in heat-health applications for disaster risk reduction (DRR). In particular, this paper presents how EXTREMA (EXTReme tEMperature Alerts for Europe), a 2018 funded European civil protection program, converts geostationary thermal image data into actionable information. This information has the form of personalized heatwave risk estimations that can be readily used by the general public and the city authorities.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event

• Publication date

  2019-05-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/JURSE.2019.8808947
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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