Problem:

Air pollution is associated with 5 million annual deaths worldwide, negative health impacts, and it costs the global economy trillions of dollar ($) losses annually.

Citizens do not have enough information about the pollutants that the air stores. Therefore we need to integrate NASA data, ground-based air quality data, and citizen science data to create an air quality surface that displays the most accurate data for a location and time.

Solutions:

- We have used Remote Sensing to monitor the air pollution index and to find air pollutants.

- Displaying informations on a map, that is user-friendly and in which people can combine data from NASA’s satellites with their data (uploading photos and present the factors that have affected the air quality).

- The data will be stored in a database. Citizens can see others answers and give feedback to them.

- We have included Aerosol Index, but in the future we are going to also add Aerosol Optical Depth, Carbon Monoxide, Dust, Fire, Sulfur Dioxide, Ozone, Nitric Acid.

- We have developed air quality surfaces in many locations. Satellite images are updated every 16 days.

Tools:

- WorldView

- QGIS

- Maptionnaire

- Adobe illustrator

- Camtasia

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Resources used from NASA:

1. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/hazards-and-disasters/air-quality

2. https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

3. https://www.epa.gov/hesc/rsig-data-inventory

4. https://airquality.weather.gov/

5. https://data.nasa.gov/