Webinar

Our webinar delivers monthly expert talks on local environmental topics to cool, green and wild metro SA.

You can register to watch them live or catch up with our recordings on our YouTube channel.

As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, understanding urban heat is essential for creating cooler, more resilient cities. This webinar explores how new satellite technology could change the way we monitor urban heat.

Current aerial thermal imagery methods can be expensive, infrequent, and difficult to compare over time, limiting their usefulness for ongoing monitoring. Emerging space-based approaches may be able to help overcome these challenges, providing more consistent, scalable, and timely insights across metropolitan Adelaide.

Delivered in partnership with Flinders University, SmartSat CRC and Green Adelaide, this session shares findings from a collaborative project investigating innovative approaches to mapping and monitoring urban heat from space.

What you’ll learn:

• What urban heat is and why it matters for people, plants and wildlife
• How satellite thermal imagery can monitor urban heat and identify where people are most impacted
• The advantages of satellite monitoring, including cost efficiency, repeatability and near real-time data
• Opportunities and limitations of emerging space-based technologies
• How satellite data can guide urban greening and cooling interventions
• The future of urban heat monitoring

Ideal for planners, local government, health professionals, environmental practitioners, and anyone interested in climate adaptation and urban sustainability.