Extension of Copernicus Urban Atlas to Non-European Countries

One of the parts of the Land Monitoring Service is Copernicus Urban Atlas, which provides reliable and comparable land use maps with high accuracy for large number European functional urban areas and their neighbors for every 6 years (2006, 2012, 2018). Unfortunately, there is no available such products for Ukrainian cities and there is no possibility to reproduce the technology by which they are obtained. This is due to the unavailability of sufficient high resolution satellite data information at the cities level, which is an integral part of the European methodology for obtaining the Urban Atlas. That is why we have proposed new approach on the base of open data which can be applicable to any other city. Kyiv (Ukraine) became the first city outside the Europe, for which the methodology by creating Urban Atlas was developed, which is compliant in structure and functionality to the European Copernicus Urban Atlas. The methodology was scaled for Lviv City, as well as applied and tested for other cities, in particular for Rivne, Irpin (Ukraine) and Lublin (Poland). In addition to the main management tasks that the Urban Atlas helps to solve, the obtained products can be used to unify and air quality monitoring in cities, and as a base for assessing the sustainable development goals indicator 11.6.2 “Annual mean levels of fine particulate matter in cities”.