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Optimising health and well-being by identifying gaps in walkability and cyclability, combined with a variety of health and education facilities, jobs, green spaces, shops and environmental services
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Optimised Planning
Make the best of Earth observation and geospatial intelligence to create healthy and prosperous places. Analyse and diagnose the accessibility, environmental and economic conditions and opportunities using OPTIMAL ATLAS. Create scores, ideate, collaborate and combine with a rich data catalogue using OPTIMAL STUDIO.
Save up to 80%
of your time dedicated on data finding and analysis by using tailorable urban scores and explainable satellite indicators
We are developing Optimal Cities with a team of specialists involved in over
500+ projects globally
How can it be used?
Optimal Cities has two components:
Case studies:
OPTIMAL CITIES ATLAS
Urban indicators and satellite indices at your fingertips
Track changes, analyse, combine and create tailored scores for a variety of location intelligence uses:
Walkability & Cyclability
Public Health Risk
Environmental Impact
Real Estate Valuation
Site Identification
Spatial Accessibility
Sustainability Assessment
Biodiversity Gain
Population Dynamics
Site Assessments
Urban Morphology
Viability Studies
Carbon Capture
Infrastructure Capacity
Land Use Suitability
OPTIMAL CITIES STUDIO
Create. Collaborate. Communicate
Providing data catalogues and the full range of tools for ideation, digital collaboration and interactive presentation:
Urban Design
Infrastructure Planning
Masterplanning & Zoning
Smart City Development
Community Engagement
Landscape Planning
Digital Urban Planning
Urban Strategy
Transport Planning
What's your Score?
We provide a wealth of urban analytics and tools to optimise your planning decisions and tailor your own spatial scores. Traditionally hard to get, now easy to include in your project. Have a look below:
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Composite Scores
Optimal Score
Overarching score combining social, economic and environmental indicators
Healthy City
Score combining environmental and pollution data with accessibility to healthcare, health-improving facilities and green spaces
Wealthy City
Score combining accessibility to employment opportunities, environmental indicators improving productivity and socio-economic data.
Wise City
Score combining accessibility to education and cultural facilities, environmental indicators improving well-being and learning.
Combined reachability
Score showing cumulative accessibility to multiple facilities at once with and without normalisation by terrain slope
Green Space Quality & Access
Score showing amount and health of vegetation in green spaces combined with walking and cycling accessibility
Heat Island Risk
Score illustrating heatmap of areas with higher risk of heat island effect
CREATE YOUR OWN SCORING RECIPES
Customise your own score recipe combining Earth Observation Indices, Urban Indicators and other data sources
We are just warming up. See more Urban Indicators:
Accessibility for X-Minute Cities, Walking & Cycling, Amenities, Public Health
Public Transport Accessibility Levels
Score showing accessibility levels to bus, train and other public transport services.
Education
Score showing accessibility to schools, universities and other education facilities
Healthcare
Score showing accessibility to clinics, hospitals and other healthcare providers
Employment Opportunities
Score illustrating access to city centres, business, retail and industrial parks
Community Facilities
Score showing availability and coverage of facilities and services for the community
Retail & Town Centre
Score illustrating the coverage and accessibility of retail and town centre uses
Green Spaces
Score showing accessibility to green spaces
Sport & Leisure
Score showing coverage of sport and leisure facilities
Sustainable Living
Population Density & Profile
Score and filters illustrating population density and profiles in relation to infrastructure coverage
Building Density & Land Capacity
Score and filters illustrating building density and land capacity in relation to existing and potential land development
Socio-Economic Inequalities
Population-weighted scoring of health and environmental factors combined with accessibility to various facilities
Emergency Services
Scores showing coverage of emergency services
Explainable Earth Observation insights? Sure, we have plenty:
LAND USE & PROPERTIES
Green City
Simple index showing green vegetation in the city
Enhanced Vegetation Index
EVI is an optimized score that quantifies vegetation and corrects for soil background signals and atmospheric influences. It is very useful in areas of dense canopy cover
Moisture Index
Useful for fire hazard analysis, canopy stress analysis and vegetation productivity prediction
Digital Elevation Model
Terrain elevation and slope
Barren Soil
Useful for soil mapping, to investigate erosion in non-vegetated areas
NDVI
Normalized difference vegetation index is effective for quantifying green vegetation and vegetation health
FAPAR
The Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation is an Essential Climate Variable that quantifies the fraction of the solar radiation absorbed by live leaves for the photosynthesis activity
FCOVER
The Fraction of Vegetation Cover is an Essential Climate Variable that quantifies the spatial extent of the vegetation, useful to monitor ecosystems
WATER COVERAGE & QUALITY
Water Quality
Useful to show indicators relevant for biodiversity, human consumption, leisure, food growth and industrial purposes.
NDWI
Normalized Difference Water Index is the most appropriate for water body mapping, also used to reveal flooded areas
Moisture Stress
Can be used to detect irrigation and whether irrigation is being effective or not during the crucial growing summer season, as well as find out if some parts are being under or over-irrigated.
Aquatic Plants and Algae
Useful to monitor the distribution of invasive species. Aquatic vegetation and algae are displayed from turquoise colour to bright green and denser vegetation cover in bright yellow
AIR POLLUTION & COMPOSITION
NO2
NO2 forms when fossil fuels such as coal, oil, gas or diesel are burned at high temperatures
CO
Carbon Monoxide is a major atmospheric pollutant, mainly resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels, biomass burning, and atmospheric oxidation of methane and other hydrocarbons
CH4
Methane is the second most important contributor to the enhanced greenhouse effect caused by human activity
Aerosol Index
The Aerosol Index (AI) indicates elevated layers of aerosols in the atmosphere (e.g. desert dust, biomass burning and volcanic ash plumes).
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We are compatible with you and your tools
All our 
urban indicators and satellite indices are compatible with 
GIS, CAD, 3D and Metaverse industry-standard formats and APIs.
DOES IT SOUND INTRIGUING?
We are looking for cities and specialists to experience the power of Optimal Cities
... and your project can be next in our pilot!
Optimal Cities is in development with the support of the European Space Agency Space Solutions and an expanding global community of cities and specialists. Please use the form below for an initial chat and demo to explore how you can make the best use of our solution:
