Section outline

  • The EO4GEO Program

     Session A: The basics of air quality monitoring and management
    • Air quality basics / Copernicus program 
    • Air quality management monitoring and management 
    • 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 sensor-based networks in large metropolitan areas: The case of Athens, Greece 

    Session C: Transforming Earth Observation data into real insights for air quality
    • Satellite data for air quality monitoring NO2 during pandemic times 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