City Tech's work with Microsoft, Esri, d3i Systems, and the City of Chicago will equip stakeholders with the data and tools needed to measure the impact of heat interventions and plan effective, customized interventions for cities.
City Tech is partnering with Microsoft, Esri, d3i Systems, and the City of Chicago to create a new tool to incorporate NASA environmental data into urban design and infrastructure planning. By making weather and climate information based on NASA environmental data accessible through Esri’s ArcGIS mapping and analytics platform (hosted in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud), urban planners and government officials will be able to better evaluate the need for and impact of urban green spaces and other interventions.
Explore an interactive StoryMap to understand how City Tech, along with Microsoft, Esri, d3i Systems, and the City of Chicago, are using NASA environmental data to understand the impact of green spaces on urban heat islands.
City Tech's work to understand the impact of green spaces and their reduction of urban heat islands' effects is featured in "Sustainable Cities and Society."
Municipal planners are facing the growing threat of urban heat islands. With June 2019 being the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, we need better data and tools to understand how to address the impending heat waves.
City Tech Collaborative is working on a tool that will make urban heat data more accessible to planners​, specifically in Chicago where the prototype is slated for testing in early 2020.
In Chicago, city officials are working with NASA scientists to better understand the temporal and spatial evolution of the city’s urban heat island. Eos highlights how earth observation data is informing cities' operations and planning in Rio de Janerio and Chicago, including City Tech's Urban Heat Response solution.
To give city planners better access to data and analytics related to urban heat risk, a public-private partnership plans a tool that incorporates environmental data for urban design and infrastructure planning.