Break Out Session V: User Requirements for Earth Observations for Climate Adaptation in Mediterranean Cities
Date11th June 14:00-16:30
Conveners
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Dimitris Balis
School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Balis is Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His main academic and professional activities of include remote sensing of the composition of the atmosphere using active and passive techniques (lidar, satellites) with emphasis on ozone, nitrogen dioxide and aerosols. Dr. Balis has been involved in various projects related to the validation of satellite products with ground-based measurements. He has long experience with data analysis and coupling between model results and observations and model evaluation. He has participated in more than 50 EU, international or national funded projects, being the principal investigator of AUTH or coordinator in 30 of them. He has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and more than 1800 third-party citations.
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Mark Doherty
European Space Agency
Mark Doherty is head of ESA’s Earth Observation exploitation division, based at ESRIN Frascati, Italy. He manages ESA activities aiming to enlarge the use and benefits of EO data. These include research, applications and service developments, and involve user communities from Earth Science, public and private sectors in Europe and worldwide.
Mark joined ESA in 1986 and worked on the ERS-1, ERS-2 and ENVISAT missions, before taking charge of exploitation elements of ESA’s EO Envelope Programme. His team manages the "Data User", "Value-Adding" and "Scientific Exploitation of Operational Missions" elements. Mark lead ESA’s first programme dedicated to GMES – the GMES Service Element (GSE) - and more recently, the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) which delivers consistent long-term, satellite-based observation records of "Essential Climate Variables".
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Session lead
Mark Doherty (ESA)
Rapporteur
Dimitris Balis (AUTH)
SummaryThis session will assess status of EO applications for climate adaptation in Mediterranean cites, discuss information and observational needs, societal benefits and end-user engagement, and will identify opportunities for future growth and sustainability with Copernicus and the Sentinel missions.
Structure
- Six interventions, 15min each and 5 min questions
- Panel discussion, 30 min
Aims of the session
To produce a list of both mature and emerging climate-related urban applications in Mediterranean cities, with the corresponding EO requirements, highlighting use of Sentinels data
Questions to be answered through the session
1. Which relevant climate adaptation information needs can EO serve in Mediterranean cities?
2. Major applications & EO data sources?
3. Other info sources & data merging?
4. Who are the key users?
5. Maturity of related information services?
6. Expected impact of Copernicus and Sentinels?
7. Obstacles to be overcome for sustainability?
Interventions
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 Chris T. Kiranoudis
Chris T. Kiranoudis is Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and Adjunct Researcher of the National Observatory of Athens. He holds an Engineer’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA, and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the same university. He is the author and co-author of more than 150 International Scientific Journal Publications, 60 National and International Conference presentations and active participation in 15 EU and over 40 National Scientific projects in the fields of Computational System Analysis, Optimization and Control for the Chemical Process Industry and various Energy and Environmental Systems. Recent work includes papers related to studies of the thermal urban environment.
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 Thilo Erbertseder
Thilo Erbertseder is an atmospheric scientist at DLR (www.dlr.de), the German Aerospace Center with its German Remote Sensing Data Center. He has15 years of experience in atmospheric composition research, air quality monitoring and forecasting; Research focus is on combining satellite observations, in-situ data and numerical models. He was the coordinator of PASODOBLE (www.myair.eu) - the FP7 Copernicus Downstream Service Project for regional and local air quality, ESA Sentinel-4/-5 Mission Advisory Group member (2011-2013) with focus on user requirements, coordinator of a project on satellite-based air quality monitoring and forecasting for Saudi Arabia; participated in over 25 international and national research projects; PI of several projects, author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and 3 patents.
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 Ronald van der A
Ronald van der A obtained his PhD at the University of Leiden while working at the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON). Since 1997 he is employed by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, where he is now working as senior scientist and project manager for the Climate Research department. He is involved in the analysis of satellite data for SCIAMACHY, GOME-2 and OMI. His expertises are data assimilation and emission estimates from satellite observations. He was project manager of the EU-project AMFIC, ESA-project TEMIS and part of the management team of GMES project PROMOTE. Currently, he is coordinating the ESA project GlobEmission and the EU-FP7 project MarcoPolo and he is involved in the Ozone-cci project (ESA) and the MACC project (Copernicus). He is also member of the Ozone Science Advisory Group of WMO. He has been author of more than 50 peer-reviewed papers.
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 Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Dr. Nektarios Chrysoulakis is a Research Director at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Greece. He holds a BSc in Physics, a MSc in Environmental Physics and PhD in Remote Sensing from the University of Athens. He has been involved in R&D projects funded from organizations such as the European Union, the European Space Agency and the Ministries of Environment, Development, Culture and Education. He has considerable experience in the area of Earth Observation and GIS. His main research interests include urban research, urban energy balance, urban metabolism and urban planning, natural and technological risk analysis, thermal infrared imagery and surface temperature studies, environmental monitoring and change detection. He is the coordinator of the FP7 projects BRIDGE (http://www.bridge-fp7.eu/) and GEOURBAN (http://geourban-fp7-eranet.com/). He has more than 100 publications in per-review journals and conference proceeding.
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 Johanna Granda
Johanna Granda joined Altamira Information in 2005. She converted the small research oriented company in a worldwide known service provider by selling InSAR to clients in Oil&Gas, Infrastructure, Mining and Public Institutions. Johanna has 9 years InSAR experience and is author of several papers related to InSAR applications, mainly in the Oil&Gas industry. Before joining Altamira Information, Johanna worked for the International Strategic Business Consultancy Diamond Cluster, where she advised clients at CXO-level. Johanna graduated in Business Economics, Law and Foreign Languages. She speaks English, Spanish, German, French, and Catalan, and has basic knowledge of Mandarin and Russian.
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 Constantinos Cartalis
Constantinos Cartalis is Associate Professor of Environmental Physics at the University of Athens and visiting Professor at the Open University of Greece (in the area of environmental design of cities). His research areas include the use of Earth Observation for urban studies as well as Satellite Climatology/Meteorology. He holds B.S. in Physics from the University of Athens and Masters in Atmospheric Science, Masters in Aerospace Engineering and PhD in Atmospheric Science, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is honorary doctor of the Demokritus University of Thrace and elected member of the International Bureau of Education of UNESCO. He has acted as Visiting Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Secretary General at the Ministry of Culture, Member of the Hellenic Parliament, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for the environment, vice President of the European Network of environmental legislators and member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency. He has published 76 papers in accredited scientific journals and acted as reviewer for the IPCC and several international scientific journals. At present he runs a project for the adaptation plan of Athens to urban heat. Finally he is the country coordinator for the GLOBE (Global Observation to Benefit the Environment) project run by NASA. He has been awarded with the medal of the city of Athens.
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Panel
Moderator:Mark Doherty (ESA)
Panelists:
Alain Arnaud (ALTAMIRA)
Constantinos Cartalis ( NKUA)
Nektarios Chrysoulakis (FORTH)
Thilo Erbertseder (DLR)
Chris T. Kiranoudis (NTUA)
Ronald van der A (KNMI)
Discussion
- Other key applications or data sources not presented?
- How complete is the observing system? Gaps?
- Are end-users sufficiently aware & engaged in Mediterranean Cities?
- How to increase socio-economic benefits & use of EO-based info for this application?
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Constantinos Cartalis (NKUA)