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ARSETApplied Remote Sensing Traininghttp://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov

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NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Program

Ana Prados, University of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA GSFC (code 614)

aprados@umbc.edu

Air Quality and Health Showcase, November 17th, 2016

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Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) http://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov

Disasters Ecoforecasting Health & Air Quality Water Resources Wildfires

• Part of NASA’s Applied Sciences Program (NASA HQ), established in 2008.• Team located at four NASA centers (ARC, GSFC, JPL, MSFC).• Mission: To empower the global community through remote sensing training• Target audience: policy makers and other environmental professionals in the public and

private sector

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Applied Remote SEnsing Training (ARSET)

Training for environmental professionals to increase use of NASA observational and model data for decision-making support.

http://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov

Online Webinars• 1 hr a week, 4-6 weeks• Live & recorded• Include demos on data

access• Advanced webinars

In-person Workshops• Held in a computer lab

for 2 - 4 days• Focus on data access• Locally relevant case

studies

Train the Trainers• Courses & training

manuals for those interested in doing their own remote sensing trainings

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• 80 trainings• 8,000+ participants• 1,600+ organizations• 140+ countries• All 50 US states

Air Quality only:• 2209 participants• 79 countries• 851 organizations

About ARSET

Participants2009 – 2016

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ARSET 2016 Impact

2016: 3,130 live (135 from workshops, 2,995 from webinars)

1,282 trained in June alone

9 online webinars6 in-person workshops

Reached 123 countries

Reached 1090 organizations

Disasters2 trainings

Health & Air Quality4 trainings

Land4 trainings

2009-2016: 8,040 combined trained

2009:

235

2010:

100

2011:

166

2012:

361 2013: 538

2014: 1014 2015: 2496 2016: 3130

Water Resources3 trainings

Wildfires1 training

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ARSET Hosts First Health-Focused Training

• 351 attendees• New Applications Covered:

– NASA Health Applications– Harmful Algal Blooms– NASA-CDC Collaboration– Vector-Borne Disease Risk Mapping

“I’m in Superfund and I’ve been working on our mine sites. Some watersheds have a lot of them, but the places are large and hard to access. I’m looking for a better mousetrap to find out where the tailings got into rivers, flood plains, and reservoirs. I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this, and I have a better idea of the complications, use of surrogates, and the combined data sets as lines of evidence” – U.S. Gov Employee

Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing for Health Applications, Jun 2 – 30

Top: Vegetation anomalies, comparing vegetation in Dec 2006 to average growth in previous Decembers 1998-2006.

Bottom: Rift Valley Fever Risk Assessment

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ARSET Air Quality Workshop in South Korea

• Held at Department of Atmospheric Science, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea

• In collaboration with 17th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress and 9th CAA Better Air Quality Conference

• 22 attendees– 15 organizations– around 10 countries across Asia

NASA Earth Observations, Data and Tools for Air Quality, August 28-29, 2016

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0 1000 2000

Understanding of how RS data products can be used for environmental monitoring

& decision making

Understanding of strengths/benefits and weaknesses/limitations of RS data

Knowledge of specific RS data products appropriate for my work needs

Ability to access necessary RS products

Did Not ChangeImproved Somewhat or ModeratelyImproved a Great Deal

Survey 1: Assessment of Learning ObjectivesAll application areas; 1673 respondents (Fall 2015 - present)

“The training has helped me realize the usefulness of Satellite observation in assessing air quality. So far Level 3 data is used, which is very coarse data. Analysis at Level 2 data will be helpful in requesting decision makers at Central Government to incorporate it.”- Attendee from India Federal/Central Government

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• Goal 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities– Target 11.6; Indicator 11.6.2

Annual mean levels of fine particulate matter (e.g. PM2.5 and PM10) in cities (population weighted)

Coming Soon: ARSET Online Training on the United Nations SDGs

Webinar Series: Air Quality SDGs (February/March 2017): Satellite Derived Annual PM2.5 Data Sets in Support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals• Goal 3 – Good Health and Well Being

– Target 3.9; Indicator 3.9.1 Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution (mean annual levels of air pollution level (PM2.5))

Next ARSET SDG WebinarForest Monitoring

(Spring 2017)