Smart City Services for Kiev City Within ERA-PLANET SMURBS Project

The SMURBS/ERA-PLANET project ("SMartURBan Solutions for air quality, disasters and city growth") is one of the projects of ERA-NET`s transnational call and falls under Strand 1 "Smart Cities and Resilient Societies". SMURBS project combines Earth Observation expertise and smart city methods to address several urban environmental pressures. One of these is the urban agglomerations' growth (SMURBS UG). This trend is very important, since the growth processes of cities around the world and in Europe have intensified recently and it is crucial to assess the current situation and ensure a high quality of life in such an environment through the use of "smart" technologies and offering support to informed decision making. Within this papers the preliminary results of creation of Urban Atlas product for Kyiv city with use of free satellite imagery are described.