The United States and Thailand launched the new Mekong Air Quality Explorer Tool to support Thailand’s efforts to address air pollution challenges. The new state-of-the-art, publicly available tool uses satellite and advanced computer models to provide more accurate forecasting of air pollution up to three days out.
The new tool was developed by SERVIR-Mekong, a partnership between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in collaboration with the Royal Thai Government’s Pollution Control Department (PCD) and the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA).
Currently, air quality in Thailand is measured using a small number of local monitoring stations. By using satellite data, the Royal Thai Government can collect data across a larger area to fill in the data gaps and capture a…
