Air Quality Monitoring in Urban Areas Using in-Situ and Satellite Data Within Era-Planet Project

There are a lot of various satellite air quality products with coarse resolution at the moment. They are successfully used in numerous environmental applications, but still not sensitive enough to capture all the variability of air conditions that is necessary for Air Quality (AQ) monitoring in the city. A few months ago Sentinel-5 satellite has been launched able to provide higher resolution air quality products. Air quality is one of the priority areas within ERA-PLANET project of EU Horizon-2020 program. The overarching goal of ERA-PLANET is to strengthen the European Research Area in the domain of Earth Observation in coherence with the European participation to Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and the Copernicus. Within ERA-PLANET project of Horizon-2020 program it is planned to develop air quality monitoring service for urban areas based on remote sensing data and network of air quality sensors that can be used for real time AQ monitoring with high spatial and temporal resolution. Kyiv is selected as one of pilot cities for Smart City concept implementation. This study provides an analysis of existing satellite products and ground based observations in Kyiv and describes the concept of air quality monitoring in Kyiv Smart City project.