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Environmental Public Health Surveillance for Exposure to Respiratory Health Hazards: A Joint NASA/CDC Project to Use Remote Sensing Data for Estimating Airborne Particulate Matter Over the Atlanta, Georgia Metropolitan AreaAs part of the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN) the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is leading a project called Health and Environment Linked for Information Exchange (HELiX-Atlanta). The goal of developing the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network is to improve the health of communities. Currently, few systems exist at the state or national level to concurrently track many of the exposures and health effects that might be associated with environmental hazards. An additional challenge is estimating exposure to environmental hazards such as particulate matter whose aerodynamic diameter is less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5). HELIX-Atlanta's goal is to examine the feasibility of building an integrated electronic health and environmental data network in five counties of Metropolitan Atlanta, GA. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA/MSFC) is collaborating with CDC to combine NASA earth science satellite observations related to air quality and environmental monitoring data to model surface estimates of PM2.5 concentrations that can be linked with clinic visits for asthma. While use of the Air Quality System (AQS) PM2.5 data alone could meet HELIX-Atlanta specifications, there are only five AQS sites in the Atlanta area, thus the spatial coverage is not ideal. We are using NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data for estimating daily ground level PM2.5 at 10 km resolution over the metropolitan Atlanta area supplementing the AQS ground observations and filling their spatial and temporal gaps.
Document ID
20070031730
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Quattrochi, Dale A.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Al-Hamdan, Mohammad
(Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, AL, United States)
Estes, Maurice
(Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, AL, United States)
Crosson, William
(Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
April 17, 2007
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: April 17, 2007
End Date: April 21, 2007
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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