{"id":744670,"date":"2021-07-26T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?page_id=744670"},"modified":"2023-03-24T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T00:42:00","slug":"urban-innovation-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/urban-innovation-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Innovation Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Urban Innovation Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Using urban sensing, analytics, and community engagement to make sense of global trends<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Effective March 31, 2023, Microsoft Project Eclipse research will be concluded, and the API will be shut down.  At this time, historical data will still be available via the Microsoft Planetary Computer (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> pursuant to the Terms of Use for Microsoft Project Eclipse API.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why cities?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sustainable urbanization and climate adaptation are global challenges, but their impacts are felt locally \u2013 in cities and neighborhoods. We are using urban sensing, analytics, and community engagement to make sense of these global trends at hyperlocal scales and help empower cities and communities to build their capacity for resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air quality, for example, contributes to over 7 million premature deaths globally each year, but we know remarkably little about how air quality varies between or even within neighborhoods. By building air quality sensor networks at the neighborhood scale, and engaging local communities, we are seeking to make this invisible killer visible and actionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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