Tag: satellites

Climate and Society Students ‘Develop’ Research for NASA, IRI

by | 4.12.2013 at 2:07pm
Satellite image courtesy NASA Goddard

Two Climate and Society students are working on a NASA DEVELOP project at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Learn about the research and visit their virtual posters.

Visualizing Malaria from Space

by | 11.30.2012 at 5:42pm
Pietro

Public health professionals are increasingly concerned about the impact climate variability and change can have on infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and bacterial meningitis. However, in order to study the relationships between climate and …

Bottom Up or Top Down? Another Way to Look at an Air Quality Problem

by | 3.7.2012 at 4:40pm | 2 Comments
Map showing average exposure to particulate matter fine concentrations

While not all countries have the financial wherewithal and capacity to deploy ground-based instruments for air-quality monitoring, and for some countries monitoring information is not available to the public, for example, through health advisories, another way exists to assess air pollution levels: through satellites.