Editorial for the Special Issue “Air Quality Research Using Remote Sensing”

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Maria João
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Bortoli, Daniele
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/34309; https://doi.org/Costa, M.J.; Bortoli, D.Editorial for the Special Issue “Air Quality Research Using Remote Sensing”. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 5566. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14215566; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14215566
• topic: Air quality; Remote sensing

Air pollution is a worldwide environmental hazard with serious consequences for health and climate as well as for agriculture, ecosystems, and cultural heritage, among others. According to the WHO, there are 8 million premature deaths every year resulting from exposure to ambient air pollution. In addition, more than 90% of the world’s population lives in places where air quality is poor, exceeding the recommended limits; most of these places are in low- or middle-income countries. Air pollution and climate influence each other through complex physicochemical interactions in the atmosphere, altering the Earth’s energy balance, with implications for climate change and air quality.