On 10 February, from 14:00 to 15:30 CET, the Urban Atlas community will come together for an online webinar presenting recent developments, methodological advances, and use cases of the Copernicus Urban Atlas.
The event brings together experts, practitioners, and users interested in high-resolution urban land use data and its role in supporting sustainable urban development across Europe for the 2021 Urban Atlas dataset which has now been finalised, and the 2024 dataset, which has already been kicked of.
Urban Atlas is a key component of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, providing harmonised, comparable land use and land cover information for hundreds of Functional Urban Areas across Europe. Over time, the dataset has become an essential reference for urban planning, environmental monitoring, and policy reporting at local, national, and European levels.
As part of the Urban Atlas consortium, GeoVille contributes on the one hand with Sentinel-2–based change detection for Urban Atlas, providing automated change probability layers that support manual interpretation across production cycles.
This approach prioritises omission avoidance and ensures temporal consistency without replacing expert validation or polygon editing.
On the other hand, GeoVille contributes to the ongoing development of the dataset by focusing on the labelling of Green Urban Areas (GUA). Beyond mapping the location and extent of urban green spaces, this work introduces an accessibility perspective, distinguishing between:
Public green urban areas,
Private green urban areas,
Green areas with unknown accessibility, where available data does not allow a clear attribution.
This differentiation adds an important layer of information for users. Accessibility is a key factor when assessing the role of green spaces in urban quality of life, public health, and social interaction. By integrating multiple data sources and applying transparent, reproducible rules, the GUA classification supports more detailed analyses while maintaining consistency with the core Urban Atlas geometry and nomenclature.
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