Satellite-assisted Management of Air Quality

Expected Results

• Up-to-date comprehensive and spatially referenced emissions inventory
• Maps of vulnerable population location
• Integrated environmental information management and decision support system for air quality monitoring optimisation that combines ground measurements of air pollutants concentrations, synoptic pollution indicators derived from satellite remote sensing at the regional level, population exposure data to provide integrated support to environmental management decision-making
• Maps of airborne pollutants in Western Macedonia
• Maps of human health risk due to air pollution - risk-zoning of Western Macedonia
• Air quality monitoring network based on the combined use of ground measurements and their validation through the use of satellite-derived air pollution indicators
• Policy measures and cost-effective technological options for air pollution abatement in Western Macedonia
• Professional staff with hands-on training in running efficiently the air quality monitoring network and optimally handling the environmental information management system
• Widespread awareness of the local public and competent authorities in the new Member States and candidate to accession countries with regard to the possibility of using advanced information technology for efficient air pollution management