This workshop addresses the concepts of air quality monitoring and management and its linkages to the urban environment and public health.
The workshop is organized by University of Patras (UPAT), in the framework of the EO4GEO project. and was hel on the 17th December 2021.
Content:
Session A: The basics of air quality monitoring and management
- Air quality basics / Copernicus program
- Air quality management basics and EU regulations
- Air quality assessment in Italy: ISPRA activities in the EU directives framework
Session B: The ground-truth: air quality measurements in urban scale
- Low-cost sensors for measuring PM2.5: Field evaluation, calibration and insights from medium size urban area
- Air quality monitoring through low-cost networks in large metropolitan areas: The case of Athens, Greece
Session C: Transforming Earth Observation data into real insights for air quality
- Deriving NO2 values in the troposphere from Sentinel 5P data during coronavirus outbreak in Romania
- Airborne dust identification from space: a new, MSG/SEVIRI-based method for air quality assessment
- EO data to support estimation of wildfires atmospheric emissions: a contribution to the assessment of the air quality
Session D: Air pollution modelling: what is it and what can it tell us?
- Forecasting Particulate Pollution in an Urban Area: From Copernicus to Sub-Km Scale
- High resolution spatio-temporal modeling of air quality based on empirical-statistical approaches
- Urban air pollution mapping towards protecting human health: from SMURBS practice to e-shape pilots
