Abstract
Intelligence delivered by earth observation (EO) satellites performs a vital role in supporting ICT enabled urban governance, and the creation of decision making tools delivering integrated urban planning. This paper reviews the DECUMANUS project experience, detailing the development of the EO derived tools, and evaluating the service products that facilitate the deployment of top-down expertise in land use planning. The central purpose of the paper is to assess the potential for use of these DECUMANUS high resolution EO images and data, also to support bottom-up participatory planning, promoting co-design. It is concluded: 1) EO derived images and associated data offer great opportunity to deliver top-down decision making tools, which combined with auxiliary data, including participatory sensing data, effectively support integrated urban planning; 2) EO derived images also offer substantial potential as communication tools, enabling citizens to make more informed and responsible choices and participate in co-designed urban planning.
Highlights
Certain complexities arise from urban territorial governance that reflect the interconnected social, economic and environmental challenges
The structure of this paper is as follows: Section 2 provides an overview of the state of the art in respect of the challenges confronting urban governance, and the nature of responses developed in framework of integrated and participatory governance
Green roofs are identified as exhibiting consistent vegetation coverage according to a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) computed from airborne/satellite colour-infrared (CIR) imagery
Summary
Certain complexities arise from urban territorial governance that reflect the interconnected social, economic and environmental challenges. Top-down expertise operating in integration frameworks of cross-sectoral planning teams have increasingly sought the assistance of all stakeholders in a coalition of open governance that strives to respond effectively to the societal challenges of our time. Out of these challenges has arisen the agenda of open governance and co-production of urban solutions (European Commission, 2013a). The new emphasis is on the means by which more participatory engagement can be achieved In this new landscape of integrated and participatory urban governance opportunities to harness innovative social and technology solutions, derived directly from bottom-up engagement in the community, are driving expectations of a more effective policy implementation supported by the new legitimacy of the stakeholder coalition and the political capital of the community (Misuraca G et al 2010).
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