Urban infrastructure—buildings, cultural heritage, bridges, roads, railways, and pipelines—faces mounting challenges from ageing, heavy usage, water leaks, and environmental phenomena such as subsidence or landslides. Traditional monitoring and inspection methods are often limited in scale and frequency, making it difficult to detect early signs of structural stress or ground instability. Satellite-based monitoring offers a transformative solution, providing continuous, high-resolution insights across wide areas both during and after the construction phase.

By alerting and enabling cities to identify emerging risks and areas needing maintenance before visible damage occurs, these solutions support a shift from reactive repairs to predictive maintenance. This not only reduces costs and disruption but also strengthens long-term safety, resilience and supports more informed urban planning.

This session will showcase five of the twenty innovative solution concepts developed by leading European experts and organisations, currently being advanced with support from the SPACE4Cities project. Each solution is designed to address, in their own unique way, the above-presented urban challenges using satellite data and geospatial insights. Participants will have the opportunity to engage directly with the innovators, ask questions, and offer feedback—helping to shape the relevance and impact of these tools for cities and communities across Europe.

Agenda

11:00-11:05 | Session introduction (Alex Gluhak, OASC)

11:05-11:55 | Solution presentations x 5 (10 mins each) 

• GeoRisk Monitor: an Indispensable Tool for Infrastructure Monitoring (Reda Meftahi, Survintel)
• Unlocking Urban Intelligence: Integrating LLMs and radar satellite data for Scalable City Risk Management (Candela Sancho, Detektia)
• CEM: visible and invisible changes in elevation (Joana Eenhoorn, Sensar)
• Cultural Heritage InSAR-based Surveillance for Hazards (Daniel Katz, eOnsight SAS)
• Urban Lense (Riccardo Marchetto, Neptune Srl)

11:55-12:25 | Panel discussion, Moderated by Alex Gluhak, involving all speakers

12:25-12:30 | Session wrap-up (Alex Gluhak, OASC)