Dr. Bahaaeddin
Alhaddad
Business developer
Starlab Limited
UK

Biography
Bahaaeddin I Z Alhaddad was born in 1977. He received his BSc in architecture from Islamic University of Gaza (Palestine) and MSc in Space systems on Earth Observation (Application of Remote Sensing from Space) from Lecce University (Italy) in 2000 and 2002 respectively and PhD in Urban Management and Valuations from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia- UPC (Spain) in 2009. From 2004 to 2011 He became a staff member of the Centre of Land Policy and Valuations, UPC. He has been intensively involved in the cooperation projects for more than 7 years. He joined the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London (UK) to work on urban remote sensing and Smart Cities related projects, in 2011. He is currently working as a Business developer for the Start to Earth unit at Starlab Limited (Harwell Oxford, UK).

Abstract
Space Applications in Support of Future urban development in Armenia

Today, nearly half of the world's population lives in cities. In developing countries, people are deserting rural areas while population is rising rapidly. In less than 20 years from now, these two factors will combine to drive over two billion people into urban areas, which in some cases are already overcrowded. This fast growing of some cities and relocations of commercial and residential areas have produced important changes in the industrial and urban sectors not always following sustainability criteria. As results most urban growth falls outside formal planning controls and many cities suffer poor urban services management, traffic, and congestion, loss of green areas, poor air quality, and noise. The main advantages of satellite-based EO applications are to bring parties together, to spread and improve idea, to support the decision-making process, and the development and operation of smart services. This way, satellite-based EO products can be used (both quantitatively and qualitatively) to help Armenian local authorities in development assessing the growth of urban areas in order to manage their geoinformation needs.