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Earth Observation for Urban Governance: Procuring Satellite Solutions for Your City
A non-technical course for city and regional officials on identifying, evaluating, procuring and overseeing Earth Observation (EO) solutions. No code, no sensor physics, just the decision logic that turns a governance need into a satellite service that works. Built around four real European cities: Vienna, Prague, Rennes and Antwerp.
26 lessons15 hFree
What you'll learn
- Explain how the Earth Observation pipeline turns satellite signals into governance-ready products, and where free Copernicus data stops and a service begins
- Distinguish raw technical capability from a procurable, ready-to-use service, and tell the two apart behind any interface
- Match the five EO data types (optical, multispectral, radar, thermal, atmospheric) to the governance question each one answers
- Place an offer on the five-level value chain and recognise infrastructure dressed up as a finished product
- Treat spatial, temporal and spectral resolution as a procurement constraint, and buy the coarsest resolution that still answers the question
- Translate a governance need into structured EO requirements: what information, at what resolution, frequency, format and accuracy
- Compare candidate solutions on a weighted decision matrix and defend a shortlist your weights actually support
- Read a vendor specification critically, separate marketing from evidence, and reach for 'insufficient information' when the spec earns it