Remote Sensing Applications for Trace Gases and Air Quality
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2024 | Viewed by 239
Special Issue Editors
Interests: eddy covariance; remote sensing; radiative transfer modeling; machine learning in atmospheric trace-gas-related studies
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Interests: aerosol remote sensing; atmospheric component; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air pollution represents a persistent threat to both public health and environmental sustainability. Major air pollutants comprise particulate matter and trace gases (e.g., nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and formaldehyde), which make up less than 1% of Earth's atmosphere by volume. Despite their minimal concentration, trace gases have significant societal impacts, like respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, premature death, and even impairment of terrestrial carbon uptake. The overlap effect with greenhouse trace gases such as methane complicates the interactions between global warming and air pollution. Many trace gases also act as precursors to particulate matter, highlighting the needs for precise monitoring to inform air quality management and environmental policy decisions. Earth observations offer large-coverage and frequent monitoring capabilities for trace gases, leveraging remote sensing applications to enhance our understanding of air quality. New satellites and payloads (e.g., MethaneSat and FengYun series) and advancements in retrieval algorithms (e.g., artificial intelligence) are revolutionising our techniques for trace gas remote sensing. The growth of cloud computing platforms like Google Earth Engine is transforming our capacity to analyse biosphere–atmosphere interactions. Contributions covering these scopes, encompassing the latest technological advances and their applications in air quality monitoring and policymaking, are highly welcomed.
Dr. Songyan Zhu
Dr. Shuaiyi Shi
Dr. Haolin Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- trace gases
- air quality
- remote sensing
- public well-being
- pollution exposure
- ecosystem responses
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