UK Prostor Agency will support two new projects. The first envisages using satellite to monitor and map heat in locations at greatest risk from klimatske promjene. Development of a prototype Climate Risk Index tool (CRISP) is the second project that is aimed at delivering risk assessments based on satellite and climate data to help the financial sector provide vital insurance products.
Najnovija klimatska prognoza u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu ukazuje na to da će se vruće ljeto poput 2018. vjerojatno dogoditi svake druge godine do 2050., do kada bi se broj smrtnih slučajeva povezanih s vrućinom mogao više nego utrostručiti u odnosu na današnju razinu u nedostatku dodatne prilagodbe; sa oko 2,000 godišnje na oko 7,000. Oko 1.2 milijarde ljudi diljem svijeta moglo bi se suočiti s uvjetima toplinskog stresa do 2100. na sadašnjim razinama globalnog zatopljenja.
Praćenje i mapiranje topline na mjestima s najvećim rizikom je imperativ u ovom kontekstu. Ovdje su korisni podaci sa satelita.
Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo Prostor Agency is going to support two new projects towards this that will provide decision-makers with vital information to help deal with the effects of klimatske promjene and improve lives around the world.
The first project is a collaboration between the National Centre for Zemlja Observation (NCEO) and Ordnance Survey (OS), which will provide meaningful insights for policy-makers to manage the impacts of klimatske promjene in vruće točke diljem Ujedinjenog Kraljevstva i šire. Using NCEO land surface temperature data derived from thermal infra-red sensors in prostor, OS will then help customers understand and identify how the data can be applied effectively.
Korištenje električnih romobila ističe Zemlja observation data used in the pilot will indicate extreme events and locations that may show greater risk to human health, such as cities where heat stress is a particular concern. By providing easier and better access to insightful evidence through the pilot and through working with the Office for National Statistics, the UK public sector will be able to tackle klimatske promjene more effectively with accurate data from prostor.
Satellite observations of land surface temperatures, and their change, are increasingly recognised as being able to provide unique and detailed knowledge to better facilitate the understanding of klimatske promjene and thus to inform planning and ‘climate-adaptive’ policies to deal with extreme events, such as heatwaves.
Razvoj prototipa Alat za indeks klimatskih rizika (CRISP) is the second project that UK Prostor Agency will support that will see Telespazio UK collaborate with Assimila. This project will deliver risk assessments based on satellite and klima data to help the insurance sector provide vital financial products to those at risk from droughts and wildfires.
Using climate data from an ensemble of climate project models, historical reanalysis and Zemlja Observation data the prototype will focus on two examples – agricultural drought and wildfires – to show insurance companies how to use the data in their own assessments to benefit the finance sector.
CRISP se nadovezuje na rad radne skupine za otkrivanje klimatskih rizika Space4Climate (S4C). Rad S4C pruža temeljnu tehničku sposobnost za određivanje klimatskih indeksa – na temelju dosljedne identifikacije ekstremnih klimatskih događaja i promjena u razina mora derived from different long-term data records of Zemlja Observation and klima re-analysis datasets.
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Izvor:
UK Prostor Agency 2021. Press release – Prostor data helping Zemlja adapt to challenges of klimatske promjene. Published 8 November 2021. Available online ovdje
