Osan City Launches "Our Neighborhood Heat Map Drawing" Program with Citizens

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Kim Gapdong] Osan City announced on the 7th that it will fully launch '2026 Our Neighborhood Heat Map Drawing,' a citizen-participatory climate change program designed to respond to summer heat waves and enable citizens to directly experience climate change in their daily lives.

'Our Neighborhood Heat Map Drawing' is a participatory program in which citizens directly measure summer temperatures in the areas where they live and analyze the thermal environment by residential area based on the collected data. Temperature data directly observed by citizens will be used to understand the characteristics of thermal environments in different areas and will serve as baseline information for establishing heat wave response and climate crisis adaptation policies in the future.

In particular, the city plans to compare and analyze the measurement results from 2023 and this year's observation data to identify trends in thermal environment changes by region and use them to enhance citizens' understanding of temperature changes in residential areas.

This program targets Osan residents or families interested in climate change, and participants will observe temperatures a total of 8 times, once a week from July to August, in major residential areas of the 8 districts of Osan City.

On the 4th, an orientation for participants was held under the auspices of the Osan Environmental Movement Union. During the training session, guidance was provided on observation locations and methods, precautions, thermometer usage, and data entry methods. After completing the training, participants began their first temperature observation in each residential area.

The city plans to analyze the observation data collected by citizens to produce an 'Our Neighborhood Heat Map' and share the characteristics of thermal environments by region and the necessity of climate change response with citizens through a results-sharing meeting.