Using Remote Sensing and Earth System Models to Improve Air Quality and Public Health in Megacities
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 5689
Special Issue Editor
Interests: air quality; transportation; sustainable mobility; satellite remote sensing; computer vision; health impacts
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Dear Colleagues,
Satellite data represent the most advanced disruptive technology to target research on adaptation strategies. Air quality, climate change, health impacts and environmental impacts are hot topics that can be studied using earth observations from satellites. The large availability of past and newly released satellite observations from ESA and NASA allow the scientific community to perform interesting analysis using top-down information about the concentrations of pollutants, such as trace gases and fine particulate matter.
The aim of this Special Issue is to use all possible open source Earth observations and extract pollutant concentrations over the largest megacities in the world. This information should be accompanied by the collection of health data possibly obtained from public authorities. The correlation between health data and Earth observation will help us to understand the impact of pollution on human health, quantify the risk and tackle the major pollutant sources responsible of highest impacts.
Topics could cover the estimation of time-series concentrations of surface particle matters, as well as tropospheric columns of dinitrogen dioxide or ozone. Articles in the field of satellite remote sensing for environmental studies are welcome, but also articles in the epidemiological field where the time series of pollutants is fundamental to estimate the impact on human health.
Dr. Federico Karagulian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- satellite remote sensing
- air quality
- health impact
- public health
- particulate matter
- Earth observations
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