An Air Quality service for cities and citizens

Currently more people live in urban areas than ever before, and these growing urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to air pollution and the compounding issues that result from air pollution. To address this challenge, AIR-Portal, an Air Quality Dashboard for European cities, was developed. AIR-Portal uses a custom-designed, local Air Quality Model that combines remote sensing, land use, road and local monitoring data into air quality forecasts on city level at a usable level of 100x100 meter resolution throughout target cities. The forecasts can be used in decision making processes for the cities involved and to inform the public about air quality on a local scale. The main space asset used for the service is Earth Observation providing true global coverage to measure atmospheric conditions as well as GNSS to provide the user with locaiton-based air quality information.