Earth Observation for Sustainable-Development in Urban Areas: Results and Achievements from ESA’s EO4SD-Urban project

EO4SD is a European Space Agency initiative to support the uptake of EOderived information in sustainable development. There are currently eight projects dealing with various aspects in this frame. One of them is the EO4SDUrban project, which is dedicated to urban development. The challenge is to increase the uptake of EObased information in the International Financing Institutes’ (IFIs) regional and global programmes by means of a systematic userdriven approach. To achieve this aim, a consortium of Earth Observation providers and research organizations is providing EObased use case examples in 32 cities worldwide. The cities and urban areas were selected according to the needs of several initiatives from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank and the Global Environment Facility. The cities are located in developing and emerging countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia.