Space applications for management of air pollution in Asia and the Pacific

Space applications for management of air pollution in Asia and the Pacific Photo credit: Kelly Hayden 1 The shaded areas of the map indicate ESCAP members and associate members.* The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) serves as the United Nations’ regional hub, promoting cooperation among countries to achieve inclusive and sustainable devel- opment. [...] *The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] The Even though the day-to-day C(NO2) has high C(NO2) values for each day of the week (Figure variability, there is a general pattern for the 10b) show increasing pollution from Monday seasons and with the day of the week, as until it reaches a maximum on Thursday and shown in Figure 7, where the seasonal variation falls to a minimum on the weekend as would be is much more considerable than the st. [...] and peak value of the total column NO2 (TCNO2) of the City College of New York, and compares 3.4 DU compared to the nominal value of 0.5 the values to the OMI-retrieved C(NO2). [...] Though work is ongoing with respect to the The launch of the GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite, validation of GEMS data, it is clear that the in 2020, benefits the Asia-Pacific region with installation of Pandora instruments in the Asia- higher resolution and more frequent remotely- Pacific region, the development and testing sensed data on air pollution.