“Global View of Health and Air Quality at NASA” by Laura Judd at the 2023 Water for Food Global Conference. A recording of the presentation can be found on the conference playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSBeKOIXsg3JNyPowwJj6NDSpx4vlnCYj.

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Laura Judd, PhD
Associate Program Manager
Applied Sciences Program
May 8, 2023
Global View of Health and Air
Quality at NASA

2. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00045

3. SENTINEL-6B
AURA
CALIPSO
GRACE-FO (2)
PACE
SWOT
EARTH FLEET
OMPS-LIMB 2022
LIBERA 2027
OMPS-LIMB 2027
OMPS-LIMB 2032
JPSS INSTRUMENTS
ISS INSTRUMENTS
MISSIONS
INVEST/CUBESATS
CIRIS 2023
NACHOS 2022
CTIM 2022
NACHOS-2 2022
MURI-FD 2022
SNOOPI* 2023
HYTI* 2023
LANDSAT 7
TERRA
AQUA
CLOUDSAT
SUOMI NPP
LANDSAT 8
GPM
OCO-2
SMAP
NISTAR, EPIC
CYGNSS (8)
GEDI
ECOSTRESS
SENTINEL-6
MICHAEL FREILICH
NISAR
LANDSAT-9
CLARREO-PF
TSIS-1
TEMPO
LIS
SAGE III
MAIA*
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
U.S. PARTNER
ISS INSTRUMENT
JPSS INSTRUMENT
CUBESAT
LAUNCH DATE TBD
(PRE) FORMULATION
IMPLEMENTATION
OPERATING
EXTENDED
KEY
2010
2005
2000
1995
2015
2020
2025
04.18.23
PREFIRE (2)
INCUS*
TROPICS (4)
LANDSAT NEXT* ESO-1, 2, 3, 4*
TSIS-2*
ICESAT-2
EMIT
OCO-3
GLIMR*

4. Land Temperature Sea Surface Temperature Vegetation
Sea Surface Salinity Total Rainfall Aerosols
Chlorophyll
Fires & Thermal Anomalies Sea Surface Height
Various Types of Earth Observations…and many
are critical for Health and Air Quality Applications
All data are free and open
access at:
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/

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APPLIED SCIENCES PROGRAM
Mission
Enable people & organizations to apply
insights from Earth science to benefit the
economy, health, quality of life, and
environment.
What We Do
We make financial and programmatic
investments to generate creative solutions
and lower the technical and institutional
barriers to using Earth science information
• Work with organizations to improve their
decisions and actions
• Draw on our connections with users to
bring their feedback and inquiries back to
ESD
User-centric, Solution-oriented projects…
Applying the most appropriate science
Applied Sciences Website: https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/

6. Objectives:
• NASA’s Health & Air Quality Applications Area supports
the use of Earth observations in air quality
management and public health, particularly regarding
infectious disease and environmental health issues.
• The area addresses issues of toxic and pathogenic
exposure and health-related hazards and their effects
for risk characterization and mitigation.
• The area promotes uses of Earth observing data and
models regarding implementation of air quality
standards, policy, and regulations for economic and
human welfare.
Health & Air Quality Applied Sciences Program
• The Health & Air Quality Applications Area also
addresses effects of climate change on public
health and air quality to support managers and
policy makers in their planning and preparations.
https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/

7. Improving Dust Forecasting
for Air Quality Management,
Public Health Surveillance,
and Highway Safety
The increasing occurrence of dust storms in the
southwestern US poses imminent risk to human health,
agriculture production, and transportation. Applied research
teams are enhancing dust forecasting with Earth
observations to inform air quality, health, and transportation
officials about health and safety risks related dust storms
and support policy decisions that protect community health.
PI: Daniel Tong, George Mason University
Saharan Dust plume
San Juan, PR
Prediction of the
March 16, 2022
dust storm in New
Mexico/Texas
Dust mask (in pink)
from GOES-16
NASA Web Feature:
https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/our-
impact/story/dust-storms-valley-fever-
and-cake-pans

8. Helping New Yorkers
Better Cope with Heat
A partnership with the New York State Department of Health,
NOAA, and NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applications
program found that heat-related illnesses occurred at lower
temperatures than previously thought in the Empire State. This
prompted several of New York State’s National Weather
Service Forecast Offices to lower their threshold for issuing
Heat Advisories in the summer of 2018, helping keep New
Yorkers safe when the temperature rises.
Maximum air temperature across New York State estimated
using temperature data products from the NASA-sponsored
North American Land Data Assimilation System (7/20/10).
NASA Web Feature:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nas
a-helps-new-yorkers-cope-with-
summer-swelter
Maximum air
temperature (°F)
PI: Tabassum Insaf, NYS DOH

9. Welcome to HAQAST Launch21
https://haqast.org/

10. SWOT Launches from VSFB in
Dec. 2022
TEMPO launched from
Florida in April 2023

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MAIA is an applications-focused satellite mission
studying PM air pollution.
MAIA’s science objectives are to
study the effects of various types
of particulate matter (PM) air
pollution on:
 Acute illness and premature death
 Adverse birth outcomes
 Chronic disease
 Launch: Late 2024
 Key data product: daily averaged, 1 km
spatial resolution, total PM2.5/PM10, and
sulfate, nitrate, OC, EC, and dust PM2.5
 Mission length: 3 years*
 Instrument: 14 spectral bands, multi-
angular, polarimetric
 Targeted: 10+ urban areas where health
studies will be done*
*baseline requirements
5/5/23 MAIA general slide
Finished MAIA
science instrument,
Sep ‘22

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NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program
NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET)
The ARSET Program delivers cost-free
training to increase the knowledge,
awareness, and use of Earth Observations
for decision making
• Our trainings are:
– Online and in-person
– Live, instructor-led, or self-guided
– Provided at no cost
– Often multi-lingual
– Range in level from introductory to advanced
https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/arset
Disasters
Agriculture
Ecological Conservation
Water Resources
Health & Air Quality
Climate & Resilience
ARSET Training Themes
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14. Thanks for you attention!
laura.m.judd@nasa.gov
https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/