Remote sensing, AI and innovative prediction methods for adapting cities to the impacts of the climate change

Urban areas are not only one of the biggest contributors to climate change, but also they are one of the most vulnerable areas with high populations who would together experience the negative impacts. In this paper, I address some of the opportunities brought by satellite remote sensing imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) in order to measure climate adaptation of cities automatically. I propose an AI-based framework which might be useful for extracting indicators from remote sensing images and might help with predictive estimation of future states of these climate adaptation related indicators. When such models become more robust and used in real-life applications, they might help decision makers and early responders to choose the best actions to sustain the wellbeing of society, natural resources and biodiversity. I underline that this is an open field and an ongoing research for many scientists, therefore I offer an in depth discussion on the challenges and limitations of AI-based methods and the predictive estimation models in general.