"Monitoring air quality from space", soon to be the 14th Quarterly meeting of SCO France

Published on 27/08/2024

Air quality is a public health issue. On Thursday 12 September 2024, tune in to the fourteenth "SCO France Quarterly meeting" to find out how SCO projects are using satellite data to enhance atmospheric emission inventories and improve air quality.

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Vegetation contributes to air quality. © Getty Images

According to the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP, "air pollution, which is responsible for the deaths of more than 6 million people every year, is the most significant environmental health risk of our time".

We are dealing here with a complex subject where greenhouse gas (GHG) and pollutant emissions are intertwined, in both cases caused by human activities. Invisible, on the move and unaffected by borders, it is extremely difficult to quantify them and, as a result, to draw up action plans to improve air quality. But thanks to satellites and innovative sensors, it is now possible to track them down and develop high-performance traceability tools.

On Thursday 12 September 2024 from 10.30 am to 12 noon, take part in the fourteenth quarterly meeting of the Space Observatory for Climate and find out about three SCOlutions projects that use space data to improve atmospheric emission inventories and help local authorities draw up action plans to improve air quality.
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Le programme du jour

Preamble: MAIA, a mission to study and understand how different types of atmospheric particle pollution affect human health. Scheduled for launch at the end of 2024 and supported by the American (NASA) and Italian (ASI) space agencies, MAIA (Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols) brings together epidemiologists and public health researchers around an instrument at the cutting edge of space technology.
AEROLAB SPACE: The space component of the AEROLAB project, AEROLAB SPACE uses the synergy of in-situ (ground, aeroplane, balloon) and satellite data to monitor greenhouse gases on a regional scale. A unique tool designed to help regional authorities in their efforts to decarbonize, it is a flagship project in terms of adapting to and mitigating climate change.
💡 AEROLAB SPACE shows GHG emissions for the Grand Est region
GreenSpace: In cities, trees reduce air pollution and urban heat islands (UHIs). Using THR satellite imagery, GreenSpace offers cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants a complete inventory of private and public trees, an estimate of the environmental benefits for the city, a mapping of UHIs and recommendations for drawing up an ad hocgreening plan.
💡 GreenSpace: choose carefully trees species
EDISON: As part of a growing global awareness of the impact of human activities on the environment, this project is developing an online platform capable of helping public policymakers to manage air quality by cross-referencing emissions measurements with data characterizing an area, its activity, its population, its industry, etc.
💡 EDISON: air quality is a question of scale

◀︎ Air quality is affected by emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants from human activities, as shown by the spectacular fall in concentrations of nitrogen dioxide NO2 during the confinement period in spring 2020. This map is based on measurements taken by the Sentinel-5P satellite. © contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019-20), processed by KNMI/ESA

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Launched in June 2021, the SCO France Quarterly will be a regular meeting to bring the community together and enable each project to showcase its progress, inspire others and create synergies.

🎥 You can watch videos of previous quarterly events here.