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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2024, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 97-116

Satellite observation datasets and web-services of gas and aerosol composition of the atmosphere

A.A. Tronin 1 , M.P. Vasiliev 1 , G.M. Nerobelov 1 , V.S. Urmanov 1 , A.V. Kiselev 1 
1 Saint Petersburg Federal Research Center RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Accepted: 18.09.2024
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2024-21-6-97-116
The review focuses on available satellite measurements of the main gaseous and aerosol pollutants and the means by which the data are provided. The article discusses the main publicly available satellite measurement datasets, which are distributed to the end user either by posting the data on a research team’s web page (for example, a laboratory’s website) or through a specially developed web service. According to the study, NASA’s GES DISC (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center) web service is the most effective in terms of air quality analysis. This is ensured by the free dissemination of pollutant content information based on measurements by two existing high-quality measuring instruments — OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument) and TROPOMI (Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument) (and not only them); providing high temporal and spatial resolution data and data with different levels of processing (from L1 (Level 1) to L4 (Level 4)); regular data updating on the service; convenience and speed of obtaining satellite data, due to the built-in web service. However, when conducting research based on satellite measurement data, it is important not to limit to one source of information, but to consider all available datasets. This is due, for example, to the use by individual scientists of different algorithms for retrieving the content of pollutants in the atmosphere, to different measurement errors of satellite instruments, their spatial resolution, etc.
Keywords: air pollution, satellite measurements, web services
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