Applied Remote Sensing Training Program in 2022 to mitigate heat-wave impacts and construct heat vulnerability indices to reduce health risks for the urban population.
The training highlighted the importance of remote sensing and thermal mapping from satellites. It aimed to “provide global, timely, objective observations to monitor the effects of urban heat islands over time and monitor land surface temperature respectively.”said, “With the mapping of UHIs, incorporating socioeconomic data pertaining to population, demographics, and health information into heat vulnerability indices can help guide interventions to manage heat-related risks to public health.
HotSat-1 is said to help with pollution monitoring and detect sudden changes in the temperature of river water for example. The innovation’s sensor has been tested on an aircraft flying over the London Borough of Ealing, the data was monitored by Britain's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey . OS will have access to will have early access to the satellite’s data. Donna Lyndsay from OS said, “OS will combine the data with our intelligence and then test it on our customers.”Falcon-9 rocket into orbit at 5:19pm ET from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today.