The European Space Agency (ESA) will soon launch the next Sentinel satellite, Sentinel 5-P. This one is specifically geared towards atmospheric/air pollution monitoring. Launch is expected in September 2017 and data will be free.

See http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/Air_pollution_monitoring_Sentinel_on_show

The page has a little video that nicely shows what can be mapped.

Berst regards, Norman

I recently completed a months training on Remote Sensing and Air Quality Applications for Indian Sub-Continent and Surrounding Regions through NASA's online webinar series. I must say it was a great learning experience. I would highly recommend this for you. Just follow this link http://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/

As far as your question is concerned, of course we can monitor air quality by remote sensing satellite imagery. You would be amazed at the potential applications of Aerosols monitoring with the MODIS, MISR, OMI, and VIIRS satellite instruments and various other Application of Satellite Data to Particulate, Smoke and Dust -Monitoring Satellite derived aerosol optical depth-PM 2.5 relationships, Application of Satellite Data to Gaseous Pollution monitoring especially NO2 & SO2 monitoring from the OMI instrument etc.

Yes to a limited extent, limited to aerosols, PM and smog. It may be possible with some extra equipment or analytical technique to monitor NO2 and SO2.

Go to the site of OMI

http://www.knmi.nl/omi/research/news/newsWrap.php?language=only_en&timeFrame=latest&choise=page

http://www.knmi.nl/omi/news/temis/temis_en_nrt_trop_no2_other_regions.html

Yes, you can. However, it could have its own disadvantages [spatial resolution of the remotely sensed datasets, the effects of cloud cover and other meteorological features] and the limitedness of remotely sensed data regionally and globally. However, if your research has the financial backing, I would say, why not do it. Good luck! 

Absolutely 'Yes', MODIS---AOD--PM2.5/PM10, is a popluar way, however, we have to acknowledge that there is certain uncertainty during the retrieval.

The NASA Air Quality Applied Science Team generated a "User Guide" which was published in Atmospheric Environment: the article is open access, and can be found at the link below.

http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1352231014004270/1-s2.0-S1352231014004270-main.pdf?_tid=7541edc4-2a27-11e4-9453-00000aab0f27&acdnat=1408731148_3df214af494dc7b2fb2f6d84cf5e5e3b

In addition to the answer of Michael Wimberly above, you may want to visit aqast.org, which is a website for the NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST).  The purpose of NASA AQAST is for its members to facilitate the use of satellite data by the air quality community.

Yes. The advantage is the satellite data has large coverage too. Qualitatively, it can provide information on pollution plume etc. However, there are uncertainties if more quantitative monitoring results are desired. A large number of publications are available on this topic, especially to improve the correlation between satellite data (e.g. AOD) and ground-monitored levels (e.g. PM). They can be easily found online.

Of course YES.

The atmospheric pollutant can be simply grouped into two classes: 1）pollutant gases such as CO,CO2,SOx ；2） Particulate matter, for instance PM2.5

These pollutant all can be detected by remote sensing. For example,, the satellite of GOSAT, IASI,AIRS,OCO-2 can detect CO2;  MODIS\VIIRS can derive aerosol loading.

Yes. I think you can monitoring air pollutants by satellite imagery. but you have to review the characterisrics of sensor and resolution of satellite imagery.

The answer is yes.  and, remote sensing data have been widely used for air quality monitoring. Besides air pollutants, smoke and dust plume detection from satellite measurements can provide indication of air quality. However, cautions have to been taken, satellite data tells you what is happening in the total column, to get ground-level air quality, one more step has to been taken. 

Dear Maher,

As previously answered, yes you can. You can take a look to the research papers developed by the Aerosol team of the LOA and LA laboratories:

http://www-loa.univ-lille1.fr/recherche/Aerosols/fr/articles.php

http://www.aero.obs-mip.fr/en

Hopes it's help

best

hubert

Yes you can. You just need to have a image wish come from a capter of their resolution. After that you wil do a adapted photo-interprettion.

Hi,

Yes you can. More details in this paper:

http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~russ/streets_etal_2013.pdf

Best wishes

Said

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it hopens for me, you have to leave researchgate for that

I have added a new link

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231013004007

Said

I have no access (anymore) to AE after retirement

Yes, It is possible to monitor air quality using satellite remote sensing, for more details you can find recent publications of Dr. Bilal at 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muhammad_Bilal39

yes check my work on aerosol at

www.temis.nl

I think aerosol has the most significant  impact on air quality. Several pulications indicates that there is a strong correlation between aerosol optical depth and PM2.5, which we may consider most.

In order to obtain aerosol at the ground you need to make a calibration between the load columnar data from satellite and aerosol at the ground by  least squared correlation once. This is enough to obtain continuous information from satellite

I am wondering:

The questioner asked what GASES can be detected and the latest answers are that particulate matter (aerosol) can be seen.

The way the topic goes is that we all provide new compounds and satellites

The questioner should now write what he wants himself and what he does with the answers and close the subject.

Thank you for your participating Harry ten Brink

Actually, I want to monitor PM2,5, SO2,CO and O3. Using Landsat Data. 

Yes, many people have already done that. You can go to NASA website to get the data you need.

Edward, your question is too general. Try to specify. 

Leonid

You can use MODIS AOD. To gain more information, you can refer to the following publication:

Article Investigation and validation of MODIS SST in the northern Persian Gulf

Many studies have been done to measure air quality by satellite

see for example:

https://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/8/5189/2015/amt-8-5189-2015.pdf

https://airquality.gsfc.nasa.gov/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/the-future-of-monitoring-air-quality-from-space

However, there is no magical single instrument which are going to solve all your problems.

there are difficulties associated

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15587550

also cloud contamination, surface brightness (ice, snow, sand etc) are of a problem.

Much better to have another source of information to calibrate and validate satellite imagery. Do not forget that satellite signal is used to reconstitute reality (not a direct measure of reality) involving a prior (having hypothesis and uncertainties).

Tropospheric ozone is very difficult from space. IAGOS aircraft data (O3 and CO) are freely available and may have coverage in your area of interest.

Yes, many gases can be monitored by measurements from space. The literature is full of examples.

Though many gases can be monitored by remote sensing imagery, it is also difficult to measure such components as the CO, COT, SO2, NH3 and H2S. 

A good study in Malaysia

https://www.intechopen.com/books/advances-in-geoscience-and-remote-sensing/air-pollution-determination-using-remote-sensing-technique

Good luck..

The European Space Agency (ESA) will soon launch the next Sentinel satellite, Sentinel 5-P. This one is specifically geared towards atmospheric/air pollution monitoring. Launch is expected in September 2017 and data will be free.

See http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/Air_pollution_monitoring_Sentinel_on_show

The page has a little video that nicely shows what can be mapped.

Berst regards, Norman

Just in case you do not know this wonderful tool called GIOVANNI

https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/

Regards

Yes, many trace gases and Aerosol can be monitored by measurements from space. The satellite measurements are the future as by principle we can measure a particular  çomponent with much higher precisions and resolution. Follow the PDF

Chapter Remote Sensing of Aerosols From Space: Retrieval of Properti...

Sure, you can. Both aerosols and trace gases can be detected using satellites. For more detailed information about the products you can check: https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/

Yes, you can. There are many papers deal with this subject.

There are many EO satellites data and derived products for air quality check https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/hazards-and-disasters/air-quality

Yes, it is possible to remotely sense Air quality from satellites and from ground observations as wel

Yes! But need to understand that most of products are for total column, while Air Quality we concerned most are close to surface. So, information on vertical distribution of pollutants is critical for some type of pollution, such as pollutions from biomass burning, since the smoke can either go up high or can reach to the ground. There are some satellite instrument, such as S5P TROPOMI, which has sensitivity to the Troposphere and higher spatial resolution as well.

I encourage you to goggle "S5P TROPOMI"...

-pubu

Yes, Dear Prof.Mohamed, S5P TROPOMI was designed for measured of several pollutants in column of atmosphere, such a pollutants as CO, Formaldehyde NOx and many others

Yes it is possibile look at

www.temis.nl

Yes many satellite data derived air quality products check this one example

https://geospatialwarehouse.com/2019/03/20/copernicus-sentinel-5p/

You could also use the Landsat 8 and Sentinel images for air pollution monitoring.

Yes you can there are many satellites working in this target

You can used Landsat-8 and Sentinel to monitor air pollution and quality. To learn more I suggest you visit the website

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/Air_pollution_monitoring_Sentinel_on_show

There are many that try but few get it right.

1: Air quality needs high temporal resolution see Fig 5 in Guo et al. Environmental Pollution 2017 221, 94-104 or my paper (confidential raw data hence max/ave) Fig 2 in Atmospheric Environment, 216, 116914 . That rules out MODIS/Sentinal and any others that do not supply the high temporal resolution. As for Landsat, 2 weeks???

2: Geostationary satellites are required to provide rapid data updates. This is slightly coarse but 4 km2 is better than anything else out there.

3: AOD uses spatial averaging and cloud subtraction. This is also wrong (sorry paper only in preparation on this one :-) )

4: Yes satellites provide a column, not ground-level concentration (GLCs). Fortunately, they are usually "optically thin" which means that the concentration of the layer can be determined and then knowing the plume height you can determine GLCs

5: Is it possible, yes see https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6586901543742726144/

Yes. It's possible when we use the LUT table and suitable algorithm