ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-4-W1-87-2013 USING CITYGML TO DEPLOY SMART-CITY SERVICES FOR URBAN ECOSYSTEMS Prandi F. 1 De Amicis R. 1 Piffer S. 1 Soave M. 1 Cadzow S. 2 Gonzalez Boix E. 3 D'Hont E. 3 Fondazione Graphitech, via alla cascata 56/C Trento, Italy Cadzow Communications Consulting Ltd., UK Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Artificial Intelligence Lab, BrusSense, Bruxelles, Belgium 06 05 2013 XL-4/W1 87 92 Copyright: © 2013 F. Prandi et al. 2013 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XL-4-W1/87/2013/isprs-archives-XL-4-W1-87-2013.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XL-4-W1/87/2013/isprs-archives-XL-4-W1-87-2013.pdf

The rapid technological evolution, which is characterizing all the disciplines involved within the wide concept of smart cities, becomes a key factor to trigger true user-driven innovation. In this context 3D city models will play an increasingly important role in our daily lives and become an essential part of the modern city information infrastructure (Spatial Data Infrastructure). The goal of this paper is to introduce the i-SCOPE (interoperable Smart City services through an Open Platform for urban Ecosystems) project methodology and implementations together with key technologies and open standards. Based on interoperable 3D CityGML UIMs, the aim of i-Scope is to deliver an open platform on top of which it possible to develop, within different domains, various "smart city" services.<br><br> Moreover, in i-SCOPE different issues, transcending the mere technological domain, are being tackled, including aspects dealing with social and environmental issues. Indeed several tasks including citizen awareness, crowd source and voluntary based data collection as well as privacy issue concerning involved people should be considered.