Heat action plans and stakeholder workshops
Planning teams use the interactive maps in workshops to align departments, discuss priorities with citizens, and build consensus on where to invest.
Municipal Climate Adaptation
Planning foundations for resilient buildings, districts, and infrastructure.
Most cities know heat and flooding are growing risks, but lack the building-level evidence to decide where to act first. UrbanSens turns satellite and open data into an interactive decision tool: heat and exposure, shade and green-blue infrastructure, and flood screening in one workflow, from first evidence to concrete measures.
The goal
Streets that stay cool, green, and livable.
Method
From satellite and open data to a measure, in five steps.
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Satellite & open data
Sentinel, Copernicus, DWD and OpenStreetMap as the input.
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AI downscaling
Coarse satellite signals refined to fine spatial detail.
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Building level
Every building and street gets its own value.
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Exposure
Overlaid with population, age, and sensitive facilities.
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Measure
Turned into prioritized, fundable adaptation measures.
How It Works
From satellite and open data to local action.
Each layer answers a different planning question. Together they form the evidence base for targeted climate adaptation.
Layer 01
Heat burden
Satellite-derived surface temperatures reveal where heat accumulates at building level. Hotspot classifications and the surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect make patterns comparable across districts and time periods.
Identify the hottest streets, building clusters, and districts at a glance.
Beyond Heat
From flood screening to concrete measures
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Water and flood screening
Beyond heat, the Explorer screens flood exposure from official hazard data and a high-resolution terrain model, with rising-water scenarios that show which streets and buildings are affected first.
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Planning cases
Bundle the evidence into concrete planning situations for a site, street, or district, so every decision starts from the same shared picture.
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Prioritized measures
Derive and rank adaptation measures by impact and feasibility, from greening and shading to unsealing and water-sensitive design.
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Implementation
Track measures from decision to delivery, keeping evidence, priorities, and progress in one place.
In Practice
How city teams use the evidence
Cooling routes and public space design
Landscape planners identify corridors where shade, water features, and vegetation create connected cooling paths through the hottest parts of the city.
Protecting schools, care sites, and public buildings
Facility managers and building departments use the exposure data to prioritize which schools, nurseries, and care homes need structural heat protection or operational measures first.
Why Now
Climate adaptation is becoming a duty, and a funded one.
Federal frameworks make building-level adaptation evidence relevant for every German municipality, now.
KAnG
Federal Climate Adaptation Act
In force since 2024: precautionary climate adaptation becomes a task for the federal government, states, and municipalities, including adaptation concepts.
DAS
German Adaptation Strategy
Renewed in 2024 with, for the first time, measurable targets and indicators that municipalities are measured against.
ANK
Natural Climate Protection Programme
A billion-euro federal funding line for natural climate protection: urban greening, unsealing, and sponge-city measures.
See It Live
See the method in the interactive demo, then let us build it for your city.
The interactive UrbanSens Explorer walks through heat, exposure, shade and green-blue, and flood screening at building level, with a workflow from evidence to concrete measures.
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Free screening
Your city, from open data, no GIS needed.
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Joint session
Findings and priorities, discussed together.
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Pilot for your city
Building-level and funding-ready.
Built on open, official data Sentinel-2CopernicusDWDOpenStreetMap