NASA collaborated with Google to help local governments improve their monitoring and prediction of air quality
NASA and Google will develop advanced machine learning-based algorithms that link space data with Google Earth Engine data streams to generate high-resolution air quality maps in near real-time
We’re thrilled about our partnership with NASA to make daily air quality more actionable at a local level,” said Rebecca Moore, director at Google Earth, Earth Engine and Outreach at Google
The results will create city-scale, near real-time estimation and forecasting of harmful pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter
Google has incorporated two new NASA data sets into the Earth Engine Catalogue that are automatically updated daily
These include data from the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System Composition Forecasts (GEOS-CF) and Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)
These provide satellite observations of pollutants to help map and predict regions with poor air quality
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), air pollution is responsible for about 7 million deaths worldwide each year