"GREEN" SPACE TECHNOLOGY - NAVIGATING THE VALUE CHAIN TO ENHANCED ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY and SUSTAINABLE LIVING AGAINST EXTREME CLIMATE RISK

Paper number

IAC-15,E5,5,5,x31562

Author

Ms. Bat EL Lavien, Israel

Year

2015

Abstract

With the rapid increase of extreme weather throughout the
world due to climate change, economic losses from disasters are now reaching a global average of 
US$350 billion worldwide, according to the latest UN reporting. Although predominantly there has 
been progress in global education about risk reduction, this has only 
led to reductions in mortality rates. One of the major challenges has been, and continues to be, the 
lack of a system which is able to get the relevant information to the right people in real time. Relevant 
solutions must be able to first locate the relevant data, assess it and then distribute it as viable 
information globally, so that there may be provisions for the needs of the injured populations such as 
water and food security, especially to those populations most susceptible and so that damages to 
other populations may be mitigated when the inevitable occurs. This paper will discuss the findings 
realized during the research and design of Xplore.Space. Xplore.Space is a new integrated space and 
ground system project which will quicken the identification, analysis and application for dispersing vital 
information. Xplore.Space includes: (i) advanced sensors in the payloads of a constellation of small 
and micro satellites for Earth observation, (ii) the use of space based telecommunications systems, 
(iii) the use of advanced remote sensing, (iv) the use of newly developed cognitive computing 
methods together with improvements in deep data mining techniques, and (v) new applications in the 
internet of things (IoT) devices. Some of the concepts behind the design are commonly used in 
military planning, yet they do not apply to the population at large. They are designed to be used 
mostly for viewing anomalies on the ground.  While some civil companies and governments have 
mapped large areas of the earth, the science is quite new. Models of risk estimation in particular 
are not specific for a particular type of disaster. Additionally remote sensing capabilities are slow in 
finding the specific affects of climate change but are certainly worthwhile when speed up by software. 
However, the advent of these companies and sciences together with the use of constellations of small 
satellites for commercial uses is expected to enable integrated space-ground systems to solve 
problems related to humanitarian risks, especially in light of the brutality of climate change upon the 
world's population. This integrated end-to-end solution is expected to cast insight into the scale and 
orientation of its use.

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