Urban Sustainability: Amman’s scalable blueprint: how EO technologies are climate-proofing urban planning
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The ESA's GDA activity on Urban Sustainability and the World Bank are supporting the Greater Amman Municipality with Earth Observation technology for evidence-based policy.
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International financial institutions (IFIs), like the World Bank, are using EO data-powered computational models, like Agent Based Models, to simulate and assess development scenarios.
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EO products will integrate geospatial data into Amman’s climate initiatives, including the Green City Action Plan and Climate Plan, to deliver a productive, inclusive, resilient and low carbon urban future.
The first map reveals Jordan’s entire built-up landscape, highlighting Amman as the country’s dominant urban centre and the starting point for deeper analysis.
Location
Amman (JOR)
Institutions
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The ESA's GDA activity on Urban Sustainability and the World Bank are supporting the Greater Amman Municipality with Earth Observation technology for evidence-based policy.
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International financial institutions (IFIs), like the World Bank, are using EO data-powered computational models, like Agent Based Models, to simulate and assess development scenarios.
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EO products will integrate geospatial data into Amman’s climate initiatives, including the Green City Action Plan and Climate Plan, to deliver a productive, inclusive, resilient and low carbon urban future.
The first map reveals Jordan’s entire built-up landscape, highlighting Amman as the country’s dominant urban centre and the starting point for deeper analysis.
Location
Amman (JOR)
Institutions
Jordan’s historic capital faces mounting pressures from rapid urbanisation, climate change and resource constraints.
This map highlights how Amman has grown over almost four decades.
Evidence-based EO planning tools, through ESA and the World Bank, enable cities like Amman to predict urban sprawl, socio-economic inequalities and environmental degradation.
To sustainably grow the city, the Greater Amman Municipality has spent the past decade developing action plans to enhance the city’s climate resilience and these challenges that come with urbanisation.
Location
Amman (JOR)
Institutions
Jordan’s historic capital faces mounting pressures from rapid urbanisation, climate change and resource constraints.
This map highlights how Amman has grown over almost four decades.
Evidence-based EO planning tools, through ESA and the World Bank, enable cities like Amman to predict urban sprawl, socio-economic inequalities and environmental degradation.
To sustainably grow the city, the Greater Amman Municipality has spent the past decade developing action plans to enhance the city’s climate resilience and these challenges that come with urbanisation.
Location
Amman (JOR)
Institutions
Through the GDA’s Urban Sustainability activity, a GAF AG-led consortium deployed Earth Observation technology for city-wide asset monitoring, creating baseline products that feed into an Agent-Based Model.
This innovative and replicable approach helps the World Bank and national policymakers analyse projected growth dynamics and test policy scenarios.
As you can see on the map, it provides comprehensive spatial intelligence covering land use changes, green areas detection and settlement patterns beyond Amman.
Location
Amman (JOR)
Institutions
Through the GDA’s Urban Sustainability activity, a GAF AG-led consortium deployed Earth Observation technology for city-wide asset monitoring, creating baseline products that feed into an Agent-Based Model.
This innovative and replicable approach helps the World Bank and national policymakers analyse projected growth dynamics and test policy scenarios.
As you can see on the map, it provides comprehensive spatial intelligence covering land use changes, green areas detection and settlement patterns beyond Amman.
Location
Amman (JOR)
Institutions
ESA's GDA Urban Sustainability's partner AIT’s Urban Development Simulation Model (UD_InfraSim transforms EO baseline products into trend analyses of future urban development.
Here you can see the model identified development hotspots, leveraging fine-scale monitoring of up to 1-month granularity through the Settlement Change Tracker.
The EO digital toolkit is enhanced with local stakeholder insights, directly integrating into the World Bank’s operations, providing a scalable blueprint for national and international urban development strategies.
In Amman, the World Bank’s urban resilience agenda uses these tools to support the Bus Rapid Transit system optimisation and transit-oriented development.
Earth observation is a game-changer, providing policymakers with new ways to analyse and access critical spatial data and information that may not be available for many developing economies. Through ESA GDA, the programme has provided a glimpse of how such methods can help countries leverage such approaches to leapfrog and address development challenges in new ways.
Jon Kher Kaw,
Senior Urban Development Specialist at the World Bank
Location
Amman (JOR)
Institutions
ESA's GDA Urban Sustainability's partner AIT’s Urban Development Simulation Model (UD_InfraSim transforms EO baseline products into trend analyses of future urban development.
Here you can see the model identified development hotspots, leveraging fine-scale monitoring of up to 1-month granularity through the Settlement Change Tracker.
The EO digital toolkit is enhanced with local stakeholder insights, directly integrating into the World Bank’s operations, providing a scalable blueprint for national and international urban development strategies.
In Amman, the World Bank’s urban resilience agenda uses these tools to support the Bus Rapid Transit system optimisation and transit-oriented development.
Location
Amman (JOR)
Institutions
EO impact key takeaways
- EO insights, combined with local knowledge, enable predictive modelling and scenario testing before implementation.
- EO data provides a scalable tool for international financial institutions to leverage in their global development operations and formulate evidence-based policy decisions.
- Amman demonstrates how advanced EO technology can create climate-resilient and inclusive urban futures globally.
Learn more about our project in Amman, in partnership with the World Bank, on our blog.
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