ADUCAT-Vienna_project

Vienna

ADUCAT - Actionable Data space for Urban Climate Adaptation and related socio-ecological, local Transformation

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The ADUCAT project tackles urban climate challenges with solutions such as green space management, infrastructure monitoring, and temperature forecasting. Vienna’s initiative combines satellite data with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to improve urban planning and public services. In this way, the city can use real-time environmental insights to monitor key elements such as green spaces and plant health, land shifts, and changing temperatures. Cities can be made more resilient and sustainable by using ADUCAT’s approach to integrate satellite data into urban processes and enhance local climate action

Our main challenges...

  • Heat mitigation: Vienna faces frequent summer heatwaves, with temperatures above 35°C increasing health risks for vulnerable groups and intensifying the urban heat island effect.

  • Infrastructure monitoring: Construction projects like the metro extension cause subsidence risks. Without early detection, damages can cost millions and threaten public safety.

  • Climate resilience: Flooding and droughts are becoming more common. Better forecasting and planning are needed to protect 2M+ residents and ensure long-term urban sustainability

and proposed solutions

  • Cool City: The project uses advanced satellite data for high-resolution temperature mapping and prediction to inform strategic decisions on cooling measures, urban design, etc.

  • Green City: ADUCAT focuses on improving green infrastructure through satellite-based monitoring and planning, using data from projects like SeMoNa22 and Semona Reloaded to track the vitality and cooling effect of green spaces and assess strategic greening locations.

  • Safe City: Vienna’s rapid urbanisationation requires vigilant monitoring. InSAR satellite data and radar remote sensing are used to detect changes in the city, with a focus on infrastructure-related movements, such as ground subsidence due to construction.

Key figures

3
use cases – focusing on infrastructure, biodiversity, and temperature monitoring
16
project partners
2 million
inhabitants in the City of Vienna

Milestones

Algorithms developed
Dec 2026
Monitoring tools implemented
Apr 2027
City staff and stakeholders trained
Mar 2029
Transfer
Dec 2029
1. Algorithms developed
01 Dec 2026

Algorithms for infrastructure safety, green space monitoring and heat monitoring are developed

2. Monitoring tools implemented
01 Apr 2027

Algorithms will be integrated in in monitoring tools

3. City staff and stakeholders trained
01 Mar 2029

Knowledge exchange and peer-to-peer learning to ensure the usability and adoption of the new services, selected staff from partner organisations (e.g. City of Vienna, Wiener Linien, Wiener Lokalbahnen) will be trained to effectively use the newly developed monitoring tools for infrastructure, green spaces, and heat management

4. Transfer
01 Dec 2029

Peer-to-peer learning between Vienna and transfer cities, Adaptation of tools (infrastructure monitoring, heat mapping, green space monitoring) to local needs, Feasibility & Opportunity Studies: technical, organizational, and financial implementation in each transfer city, EUI Innovative Solution Model: a guideline for replication and scaling.

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