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Leveraging Open Satellite Data for the Milano Pilot
How the SPOTTED data products can support the planning and management of Milano On June 19th, the Municipality of Milan held a workshop to present the results of the SPOTTED project. Around 40 participants - half in presence hosted at the municipality’s offices and...
Presenting the Results of the SPOTTED Project to Identified Stakeholders for the Napoli Pilot
On July 9th, the Municipality of Naples organized a meeting to present the results of the SPOTTED project. The meeting included various areas of the municipal administration, such as environment, urban planning, urban transformation, protection of the territory,...
Leveraging Open Data for Innovation: The Horizon 2020 SPOTTED Project
The concept of open data is revolutionizing the way we manage and utilize information, allowing everyone to access public data transparently and for free. The European project Horizon 2020 SPOTTED has harnessed this potential by using open data provided by...
Testing and Demonstrating the Use of Satellite Data in the Helsinki Pilot
Exploring time series, Urban Green Indexes and data integrations in the Helsinki pilot In Helsinki, the focus has mainly been on developing new data products to measure and assess the amount of green areas in the city and to support actions related to the city of...
Monitoring Soft-Mobility Thermal Comfort: The SPOTTED Use Case
The SPOTTED project aims to support green areas management by utilizing a blend of massive open data collections and Earth Observation data. This initiative supports decision-making processes through advanced data integration and processing techniques. SPOTTED has...
Updates and Insights from SPOTTED’s 6th Project Meeting
On 16 and 17 April 2024, the SPOTTED consortium met in the FIWARE Foundation office in Berlin, Germany, for its 6th Project Meeting. The next two days included presentations and discussions regarding project requirements and pilot preparations, technical development...
Introducing CEF-INTERSTAT at IstatWebinar
Date: January 25, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Where: Online Join us in an insightful online event, the IstatWebinar, where we will unravel the groundbreaking outcomes of the Open Statistical Data Interoperability Framework (INTERSTAT) project. This project,...
SPOTTED : Smart cities & Open data
SPOTTED - Satellite Open Data for Smart City Services Development Supports Public Administrations in the field of green areas management. Challenges & context SPOTTED aims to provide an innovative solution based on the integration and personalised...
A Glimpse into SPOTTED’s 5th Project Meeting
We are taking you behind the scenes of the 5th Project Meeting on November 10 2023-Barcelona, where innovation, collaboration, and progress were the order of the day. Regarding the Pilots in Focus, the morning session kicked off with a comprehensive overview and...
SPOTTED – Policy Brief
Authors: Anna Pizzamiglio, Research Associate and Project Manager, the Lisbon Council;Francesco Mureddu, Senior Director, the Lisbon Council;Antonio Filograna, Senior Researcher, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. This Blogpost discusses the SPOTTED...
Milano Digital Week 2023: insights from SPOTTED
In a world where urbanization is rapidly advancing, the need for sustainable urban policies has never been more critical. To address this challenge, the SPOTTED EU project is pioneering a groundbreaking approach that combines open satellite data with artificial...
Revolutionizing Smart Cities with Satellite Open Data
Francesco Mureddu, Senior Director at The Lisbon Council made a notable presence at the FIWARE Global Summit where he took the stage to present the SPOTTED project - "Satellite Open Data for Smart City Services Development." With great enthusiasm, Francesco shared an...
SPOTTED Consortium Meeting in Bucharest
SPOTTED Consortium Meeting: An Innovative Solution for Green Areas Management The fourth Consortium Meeting of the SPOTTED project was held on the 27th of April 2023 at the Grand Hotel Continental in Bucharest, hosted by PlanetGis SKY. The meeting aimed to discuss the...
Closing Event of CEF Projects at FIWARE GLOBAL SUMMIT!
Three among the most relevant project fInanced by Connecting Europe Facility GreenMov, INTERSTAT and ODALA (websites attached to their names) are coming to an end and there is no better place to hold their closing event than at the 9th FIWARE Global Summit in Vienna,...
The CEF 2×1 Hackathon closes: Meet the winners!
Today, a huge amount of data is being collected and analyzed using geolocation data. This data is being used by both citizens and businesses to make lasting investments. SPOTTED will ensure system functionality, interoperability, and cross-border at no cost available...
SPOTTED Hackathon – Join the upcoming free hackathon event
New year, new challenge? You have until 17 January 2023 to participate in the 2x1 CEF Hackathon. Apply to pilot your solution in European Cities, win prize money, and get global visibility. The 2x1 Hackathon initiative is dedicated to Open Data, promoted within the...
Meet SPOTTED at Smart City Expo World Congress 2022
SPOTTED will present at the FIWARE booth stage at Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona (Spain) on 17 November 2022 at 14:45 (CET) for a 15-minute presentation on the project. SCEWC, taking place from 15-17 November, is the world’s leading event for...
“Reusing Open Data for PA” Workshop at Milano Digital Week
Projects SPOTTED and INTERSTAT, co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Program, will be participating in the Milano Digital Week. Both projects use open data at the City level to implement Smart City services, along with two use cases (the City of Naples...
Thesis on SPOTTED: AI for Public Services (AI4GOV)
The Artificial Intelligence for Public Services (AI4Gov) Master’s Program aims to prepare future digital transformation leaders for AI in the public sector. The core objectives of the AI4Gov Program are providing education on (i) the management of AI-based public...
SPOTTED poster at EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2022 in Sweden.
A SPOTTED poster was presented at the EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2022 conference which took place in Linköping, Sweden, from the 6th to the 8th of September 2022. The conference focuses on e-Government, Open Government, eParticipation and e-Democracy, but on several other...
2×1 hackathon CEF hackathon. Join to the presentation webinar
The CEF projects*** virtual hackathon will be a competition for innovative ideas aimed at developing new smart services, solutions or applications in the sectorof Smart Mobility, urban green areas management and open data (including satellite data and Earth...
CEF projects virtual hackathon launched on 4 July!
2x1 Hackathon - Shed light-on red traffic lights and urban greenery status The consortium of SPOTTED and DYDAS - both projects funded by the CEF programme - together launched a virtual hackathon for developers, researchers, students or technology enthusiasts. Two...
Methodology and developing research strategies in SPOTTED
After 8 months of project few considerations came from discussion between the City of Milan and Naples, in order to realign methodology and developing research strategies for SPOTTED. Milano original aim has been to develop socio-economic analysis methodologies in...
ETAPAS Workshop “Toward Trustworthy AI Adoption in the European PA”
The workshop “Toward Trustworthy AI Adoption in the European Public Administrations,” will take place online on May 5th, 2022, from 10:00 to 13:00 CET in collaboration with The Lisbon Council, coordinator of Spotted. Results in terms of service creation (ethics and...
SPOTTED presented at the AI4Gov Master
SPOTTED has been proposed as a group-based hands-on project to eight teams of students attending the Master in Artificial Intelligence for Public Services (AI4Gov) organized by four leading European universities: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in Spain,...
FIWARE Global Summit – Leading the Digital Transformation
The FIWARE Global Summit is back for those willing to play a key role in a truly smart journey to Digital Transformation. FIWARE connects all who want to change the world, foretell the future and transform markets for the better – based on recognized Open Source...
SPOTTED supports PA in the field of green areas management
The history of cartography is more than 4000 years old. Man has mapped and documented paths and roads since the beginning of civilization. Today a huge amount of data, not comparable with those of the past – in particular geolocation data – is changing both citizens’...
