MetaExplorer: Collaborative development of urban metabolism platform for decision making support

Cities are improving sustainability levels demanded by climate change mitigation efforts. The use of big data analytics is crucial for the understanding of processes and deployment of public policies. Nevertheless, difficulties on accessing energy data are widely pointed, making it difficult to deliver reliable analysis. Delivering trustable cross-sectorial energy datasets with high spatial and temporal resolution can provide valuable insights for more informed policymaking.This paper describes the MetaExplorer, a GIS-platform, that gathers clean and trustable energy-related datasets, at municipal level for Portugal, and provides a powerful visualisation tool that can be customizable and used to derive models and support policymaking. Divided on five thematic areas, namely energy demand, buildings, mobility, waste management, and socio-economic, it provides data visualisation and the possibility to further explore relations between indicators and support the energy transition at local level, delivering customised analyses with a global perception.

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