The top 10 best suppliers of SPACE4Cities move on to Phase 2 – Prototype Development

Traditionally, satellite data has been used to monitor weather conditions or disasters, for navigation, and for surveillance for defence and intelligence purposes. Today, the SPACE4Cities project is exploring new horizons by investigating how space technologies could help European cities prepare for climate change.

The ten concepts selected by SPACE4Cities are developing space-based technological solutions to address common challenges facing European cities, such as flood and urban heat island detection, traffic-related emissions reduction, forest fire prevention, protection of cultural heritage sites, leak detection in underground pipelines, and monitoring the condition and changes in green spaces, bridges, and roads.

Seven of the winners are individual companies, while three are consortia of several companies. These companies are from France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Aerospace Valley is proud to count two of its members among these 10 companies:

• Gisaïa, an SME located in Toulouse, Occitanie, which is working with Survintel BV on the development of the "GeoRisk Monitor" solution for managing geological risks affecting urban infrastructure.
• And OPTIM.AIZE, an SME based in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which is continuing its work transforming complex and problematic Earth observation data into a unique and operational decision-making tool for urban greening, through the "OPTIM-Green" project.

For more information, consult the innovation catalog created by Aerospace Valley!

The SPACE4Cities project has received funding from the European Union for the Space Programme Agency (EUSPA) via the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101131955.