1. Speaker:
Eugenio Fontán Oñate
Madrid Aerospace Cluster General Manager
APPLICATIONS OF SPACE FOR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART
CITIES
Bari, 27 February 2014

2. Introduction
Applications
Concept
Index
INDEX
• Introduction
– From where are we coming?
• Smart City Concept
– Smart City characteristics
– Working definition
• Successful applications
– Urban planning and management
– Nature protection & sustainable development
– Wellbeing
– Tourism
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PAZ Satellite (CSIC)

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FROM WHERE ARE WE COMING?
• In 2009 equal number of people living in
cities and villages.
• UN World Urbanization Report considered
that, by 2050, over 70% people will be
living in cities.
• Cities are facing major ecologic, economic
and social challenges while this increase
is happening.
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SMART CITY CHARACTERISTICS
• The study “Mapping Smart Cities in the
EU” (1), among others, proposes this six
characteristics:
– Smart Governances
– Smart Economy
– Smart Mobility
– Smart Environment
– Smart People
– Smart Living
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(1) European Parliament, 2014
Directorate General for Internal Policies
Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy
Dubai. (AirPano)

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DEFINITION OF SMART CITY
• Different approaches result on different
definitions:
– Human capital focused definitions.
– Technology focused definitions.
– Digital literacy based definitions.
– Broad definitions.
• The European Parliament’s study propose
the working definition:
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Smart City is a city seeking to address public issues
via ICT-based solutions on the basis of a multi-
stakeholder, municipally based partnership
INGENIO Satellite (Hisdesat)

6. Introduction
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SMART CITIES
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Smart cities initiatives framework in
Chourabi et al. (2012)

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SMART CITIES
• The first approach focuses on human capital.
• The second approach focuses on
technological progress.
• The third approach is based on a normative
question: What are the skills that people and
citizens shall have to be digitally literate in the
XXI century?
• It is important to study the human capital
literature, followed by theories focusing on
technology as a main driver of changes.
• To complement the analysis with a new
perspective, bringing about the question of
what does it means to be a smart citizen in
the XXI century.
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8. Introduction
Applications
Concept
Index
SPACE ROLE IN SMART CITIES
• Space technologies can play a main role
in developing
Smart Cities.
• Satellites’ equipment
can provide a wide
range of data:
– Maps.
– Measures.
– …
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Applications
Urban Atlas data example. Prague, Czech Republic (Copernicus)
NO2 density over Europe Jan. 2003 – Jun. 2004 (ESA)

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URBAN PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
• Management of urban areas.
– Copernicus Urban Atlas for urban planning.
– Satellite Earth Observation data to improve
waste management practices.
• Regional and local planning.
– Monitoring ground instability
for local authorities.
– Support to authorities for the
exploitation of renewable
energies.
• Infrastructure, transport and mobility.
– Monitoring landslides and ground subsidence.
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Illegal waste areas detected
using EO data (Copernicus)

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NATURE PROTECTION AND SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
• Sustainable development and nature
protection.
– Monitoring the
loss of natural soil.
– Biodiversity monitoring.
– Satellite-based monitoring
of coastal water quality.
• Agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
– Satellites supporting agriculture and
sustainable aquaculture.
– Monitoring green lungs.
– Monitoring fish stocks and habitats.
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Image of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon
oil spill at the Gulf of Mexico (ESA)

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WELLBEING
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• Health.
– Assessing air pollutants
from global to city scale.
– Monitoring the air we
breathe from space.
– How satellites track a mass killer.
– Ozone monitoring for safer sunbathing.
• Emergencies.
– Satellite tracking typhoons.
– A century flood hitting Europe.
– Satellites helping manage humanitarian crises.
– Tracking floods, forest fires…
Prevalence (% of expected population testing
positive for malaria over a given location) of
malaria in West Africa (MARA ARMA)

12. THANK YOU
FOR YOUR KIND
ATTENTION
Contact info:
Phone: +34 913 997 587
Fax: +34 914 414 155
www.clusteraeroespacial.com
General manager: Eugenio Fontán
eugenio.fontan@madridnetwork.org
@EugenioFontan
Deputy manager: Enrique Gómez
enrique.gomez@madridnetwork.org