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WEO uses satellite data and AI to help cities manage climate change and urban heat. It provides high-resolution insights, maps heat, vegetation, and surfaces, and recommends actions like planting trees. This aids urban planners in cooling cities.
- Inefficiency in new tree plantings
- Loss of existing tree cover through tree mortality and removal
- Inability to justify, budget, and plan urban greening efforts because of a lack of data
- Outdated data on urban heat islands- Lack of green roofs
- Artificial and sealed surfaces that reduce water retention
Our innovation addresses problems such as coastal floods, droughts, and heat waves.
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The market assessment of this innovation has been self-declared by the provider and has not been independently verified. For more details, please contact the innovator directly.
– Our innovation provides a detailed recommendation of where new trees should be planted based on where urban heat vulnerability is worst, where existing trees are, and the constraints of urban spaces. These treemaps can be updated annually.
– Existing tree cover and tree health are mapped annually in cities to identify the drivers behind tree loss on both public and private land. This can help drive new strategies to reduce tree loss, such as irrigation or incentives for private landowners to retain trees.
– Justifying significant investments in urban greening and cooling is difficult without being able to demonstrate progress because this will be a long journey. Therefore, WEO’s maps allow authorities to justify to stakeholders that their investments are making tangible improvements each year.
– Our maps are updatable every year or even every season if required, so cities always have up-to-date data, rather than relying on historical university studies which are quickly outdated. Do maps use a consistent methodology, allowing for direct tracing of changes from year-to-year?
– Green roofs complement trees, particularly in dense urban areas, helping to cool local environments and improve water retention. Our tool helps map current green roofs and the ideal locations for retrofitting green roofs on existing buildings.
– Our tool also helps in water management by mapping sealed and artificial surfaces which reduce water retention – increasing flood risk and storing heat to increase heatwave risk.
Our technology was developed independently using a combination of private investment and support from the European Space Agency. The service has then continued to be improved by implementing it in cities around Europe, including Brussels, Luxembourg City, Gent, Dudelange, Esch, and more. The feedback from these implementations and revenue raised has been reinvested into continually improving the product. The co-founders of our company are experts in remote sensing and environmental engineering who met whilst undertaking PhD research into the topic. Their focus was to take advancements made in academia and apply them in a company that could deliver a reliable and client-focussed service to customers. The proof of our success is that most of our clients have signed up for multi-year contracts, meaning they wish to have continually updated data over time.
Our product is more difficult to implement in urban areas with very tall buildings (skyscrapers), as shadowing can occur that will impact our ability to see all ground vegetation and surfaces. However, this is not expected to be an issue in Athens. Our technology can be deployed depending on local data availability – so where aerial orthophotos are available, these will be used, but if these are not available, alternative satellite data sources can be used.
WEO uses satellite data and AI to help cities manage climate change and urban heat. It provides high-resolution insights, maps heat, vegetation, and surfaces, and recommends actions like planting trees. This aids urban planners in cooling cities.
- Inefficiency in new tree plantings
- Loss of existing tree cover through tree mortality and removal
- Inability to justify, budget, and plan urban greening efforts because of a lack of data
- Outdated data on urban heat islands- Lack of green roofs
- Artificial and sealed surfaces that reduce water retention
Our innovation addresses problems such as coastal floods, droughts, and heat waves.
The business plan for this innovation has been evaluated by The Funding Company and it is considered to be ready for investment.
The business plan for this innovation has been evaluated by The Funding Company and it is considered to be ready for investment.
The main components of the system have been tested separately, and an initial integration exercise has been conducted.
– Our innovation provides a detailed recommendation of where new trees should be planted based on where urban heat vulnerability is worst, where existing trees are, and the constraints of urban spaces. These treemaps can be updated annually.
– Existing tree cover and tree health are mapped annually in cities to identify the drivers behind tree loss on both public and private land. This can help drive new strategies to reduce tree loss, such as irrigation or incentives for private landowners to retain trees.
– Justifying significant investments in urban greening and cooling is difficult without being able to demonstrate progress because this will be a long journey. Therefore, WEO’s maps allow authorities to justify to stakeholders that their investments are making tangible improvements each year.
– Our maps are updatable every year or even every season if required, so cities always have up-to-date data, rather than relying on historical university studies which are quickly outdated. Do maps use a consistent methodology, allowing for direct tracing of changes from year-to-year?
– Green roofs complement trees, particularly in dense urban areas, helping to cool local environments and improve water retention. Our tool helps map current green roofs and the ideal locations for retrofitting green roofs on existing buildings.
– Our tool also helps in water management by mapping sealed and artificial surfaces which reduce water retention – increasing flood risk and storing heat to increase heatwave risk.
Our technology was developed independently using a combination of private investment and support from the European Space Agency. The service has then continued to be improved by implementing it in cities around Europe, including Brussels, Luxembourg City, Gent, Dudelange, Esch, and more. The feedback from these implementations and revenue raised has been reinvested into continually improving the product. The co-founders of our company are experts in remote sensing and environmental engineering who met whilst undertaking PhD research into the topic. Their focus was to take advancements made in academia and apply them in a company that could deliver a reliable and client-focussed service to customers. The proof of our success is that most of our clients have signed up for multi-year contracts, meaning they wish to have continually updated data over time.
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