Using NASA's Satellite for Modeling of Health and Air Quality Applications
Abstract
NASA's Public Health & Air Quality Program takes a multi-pronged approach to expand the reach of satellite remotely sensed data to the applications research community. NASA maintains a diverse constellation of Earth observing research satellites and sponsors research in developing satellite data applications across a wide spectrum of areas including environmental health; infectious disease; air quality standards, policies, and regulations; and the impact of environment on health and air quality.
Health providers/researchers need environmental data to study and understand the geographic, environmental, and meteorological differences in disease. Satellite remote sensing of the environment offers a unique vantage point that can fill in the gaps of environmental, spatial, and temporal data for tracking disease. This presentation will demonstrate the need for collaborations between multi-disciplinary research groups to develop the full potential. This applied sciences approach is to make changes in past health and air quality local, state and nation policies and standards. Data will be provided to substantiate new regulations and how research with satellite data and models have contributed to these standards and regulations. Successfully providing predictions with the accuracy, latency, and specificity required by decision makers will require advancements over current capabilities in a number of interrelated areas. These areas include observations, modeling systems, forecast development, application integration, and the research to operations transition process. This session will bring together data providers (NASA) and data users (other agencies, academia, private organizations) to share ideas about maximizing satellite data for societal benefit.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMGH34B..01H
- Keywords:
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- 0230 Impacts of climate change: human health;
- GEOHEALTHDE: 0240 Public health;
- GEOHEALTHDE: 0245 Vector born diseases;
- GEOHEALTHDE: 0299 General or miscellaneous;
- GEOHEALTH