Small commercial satellites have a role in atmospheric particulates investigations, according to recently published thesis research by a research associate with the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System.
The research by Jeanné le Roux (M.S., Earth System Science, 2020) is among the first to use commercial high resolution small satellite (smallsat) data for air quality investigations.
The peer-reviewed paper appeared in Remote Sensing and was co-authored by le Roux, Dr. Sundar Christopher, UAH professor of atmospheric and Earth science, and Manil Maskey, a researcher at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The research was supported by a NASA grant for its Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition program.
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