Earth observation: An integral part of a smart and sustainable city

Over the course of 21st century, a century in which urbanization process previous one is ever on rise, novel smart city concept has rapidly evolved and now encompasses broader aspect sustainability. Concurrently, there been sea change domain Earth observation (EO) where scientific technological breakthroughs are accompanied by paradigm shift provision open free data. While urban EO communities share end goal achieving sustainability, cities still lack an understanding value can bring this direction, next consolidated framework for tapping full potential integrating it their operational modus operandi. The “SMart URBan Solutions air quality, disasters growth” H2020 project (SMURBS/ERA-PLANET) sits at policy crossroad, and, creating bottom-up EO-driven solutions against array environmental pressures, expanding network engaged exemplary that push state-of-the-art uptake, brings international ongoing discussion sustainable closer to home contributes discussion. This paper advocates as integral part aspires lead example. To end, documents project’s impacts, ranging from grander fields evolving portfolio everyday operations, well cornerstones successful integration. Drawing parallel with utilization supporting several aspects 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development, be point reference upcoming endeavors stakeholders community alike, tread together, beyond traditional monitoring or planning, lay foundations