Air Quality, Wildfires, and Respiratory Health Work Group
Leads: Carl Malings (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Morgan State University) and Nathan Pavlovic (Sonoma Technology)
Rare wildfires in western Greenland. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
This work group aims to identify and disseminate recent advances in air quality applications of Earth observations, including geostationary satellites, small-sats, and data fusion, and the application of these tools to advance management and decision-making related to health through targeted presentations to practitioners and publicly-available reporting.
Primary Goal
To collectively advance the science and practice of modeling satellite and sensor measurement data for monitoring, forecasting, and assessing air quality, wildfire-related pollutants, and aeroallergens to quantify the levels of exposure associated with health risk for various population groups and the public at large.