Description:
We all agree since the 70’s that Earth Observation (EO) data is key to understand human activity and Earth changes. However two trends today are forcing us to rethink the use of EO to tackle new challenges:

- Georeferenced data sources, data quantity and quality keep increasing allowing global and regular Earth coverage;
- AI and cloud storage allow swift fusion, analysis and dissemination of these data on online platforms.

Combined together, these two trends generate various reliable indicators. Once fused together, they will allow the anticipation of future humanitarian, social, economic and sanitary crisis and the adequate action plan to prevent them from happening. Satellite imagery, 3D simulation, image analysis, mapping, georeferenced public and privte data… we are getting enough tools to give the Earth a Digital Twin and this is not Science Fiction anymore.

Airbus and Dassault joined forces to approach and reach this ambition focusing on cities. The project aims at automatically building a 3D digital model of cities as well as simulating their entire environment and using them as baseline to digitise impactful events.
During LPS 22, Airbus and Dassault want to explain the reasoning behind that project focusing on the evolution of urbanism but also taking into account environment, population from a sanitary perspective, economy and security layers. What we offer here is a global approach of Earth Observation, not just focusing on one topic, but answering myriad of problems. What better event to explain this advanced and innovative project than LPS 22?

Speaker:
Wendy Carrara (Senior Manager for Digital and European Institutions)