Tag: Air Quality

  • Monitoring air quality

    Monitoring air quality

    Featuring how the Sentinel-5P mission of the European Union’s Copernicus Programme has become a game-changer for monitoring our atmosphere while being one of the most important sources of data for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.

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  • Air quality: what’s space got to do with it?

    Air quality: what’s space got to do with it?

    Air pollution is a global environmental health problem that is responsible for millions of people dying prematurely every year. In cities and towns, traffic pumps pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide directly into the air we breathe, which can increase the risk of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, for example. Governments and decision-makers rely heavily on satellite data, such as that from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission, and computer models to show how pollution accumulates and how it is carried in the air so that they can develop appropriate mitigation strategies.

    The United Nations World Health Organization marks World Health Day on 7 April every year. The third Sustainable Development Goal underlines the right to health: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. On-orbit research, space technology and space applications can help improve health on Earth by monitoring our environment, helping track disease, improving diagnostics, and working on new medicines among other things. The UN is also focusing particularly this year on universal health coverage.

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  • ESA Euronews: Universidade de Bremen é pioneira no mapeamento da poluição atmosférica

    ESA Euronews: Universidade de Bremen é pioneira no mapeamento da poluição atmosférica

    Certamente já usou uma aplicação no telemóvel para consultar a previsão meteorológica. Hoje, graças a uma rede de satélites e estações terrestres, é possível obter informações sobre poluição em várias cidades no seu telemóvel.

    O jornalista Claudio Rosmino reporta-nos como a Universidade de Bremen, está a recolher esta variedade de dados para chegar a uma visão global da poluição atmosférica.

    A atmosfera terrestre é um sistema complicado que depende de vários factores. Os satélites de observação que orbitam à volta do planeta monitorizam constantemente o estado do ar que inalamos e o modo como é afectado pela poluição natural e pela de origem humana.

    Uma missão essencial uma vez que, segundo dados recentes da Organização Mundial de Saúde, uma em cada oito mortes a nível mundial se deve à poluição do ar.

    Os investigadores da Universidade de Bremen são pioneiros na medição da poluição atmosférica cruzando os dados obtidos no espaço e os valores colhidos em estações terrestres.