Air Pollution Monitoring Anytime, Anywhere
GlobeEye’s Space-2-Breathe (S2B) provides
continuous, high resolution, large-scale monitoring of
air pollution.
Leveraging satellite data and our advanced deep learning model, Space-2-Breathe
provides real-time information on pollution data and how it relates to industrial and human activity, with an unprecedented combination of detail and scale.
Thanks to S2B, NO₂ ground concentration and its impact on people can be assessed anywhere, anytime.
AIR POLLUTION KILLS
The so-called SILENT KILLER is the greatest environmental health risk of our time, causing seven million deaths per year (source: WHO*). Space-to-Breathe responds to the urgent need for better air quality monitoring, equipping public administrations, businesses, financial institutions, and individuals with a powerful new tool to face the ‘silent killer’.
Space-2-Breathe contributes to the achievement and monitoring of the Climate Action, Health and Well-Being, and Sustainable Cities and Communities goals of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda, highlighting the increasing role of space data in this area.
The Dangers of Air Pollution
Air Pollution: the Silent Killer
Seven million people die every year due to air pollution (source: WHO*). Over half a million yearly deaths are estimated in Europe alone.
It is estimated that air pollution cuts short the lives of billion of people by up to six years.
Moreover, air pollution increases hospital admissions and exacerbate symptoms, especially for cardiorespiratory disease.
Overall, nine out of ten people breathe polluted air, 99% of the world’s population live with air pollution levels above WHO guidelines (source: WHO*).
This makes air pollution the most serious environmental health risk.
"Air pollution is the greatest external threat to human health on the planet, and that is not widely recognised, or not recognised with the force and vigour that one might expect". Prof Greenstone, M University of Chicago
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂)
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂) is a major air pollutant and carries significant health risks: breathing air with a high concentration of NO₂ can irritate airways in the human respiratory system and can aggravate respiratory diseases, particularly asthma.
Longer exposures may contribute to the development of asthma and increase susceptibility to respiratory infections.
Research published since the inception of Covid-19 argues that air pollution and NO₂ concentrations in particular are correlated to the spreading of the virus and the severity of the symptoms.
In addition, NO₂ reacts with other chemicals to form secondary pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter.
Although NO₂ emissions are regulated in the US and Europe, safety limits and WHO recommendations are often exceeded, particularly in urban areas.
Space Data to Monitor Air Pollution
Space-2-Breathe contributes to the global fight against air pollution with detailed, continuous, objective, large-scale information on air pollution.
Our monitoring platforms currently provide daily mapping of NO₂ concentrations with both large geographical reach and local detail for a number of European regions. They provides continuous NO₂ concentration information with a high level of detail, at ground level. To do so, they leverage a unique combination of satellite data, other remote sensing and alternative data, state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms, and big-data methods.
In spite of its importance for people's health and the global climate, detailed data on air pollution and its sources is limited, often available only in specific locations and in high-income countries. Additional air pollution data is often self-reported by polluters themselves, out-of-date, incomplete and unverified.
Space-2-Breathe fills the information gap between large-scale between low-resolution satellite information and localised ground-sensor data.
Where S2B can help
ESG and CLIMATE RISK
INSURANCE and Real Estate
NATURE-BASED solutions
NATURE-BASED solutions
INSURANCE and Real Estate
NATURE-BASED solutions
INSURANCE and Real Estate
INSURANCE and Real Estate
Health and Environmental Policy
Health and Environmental Policy
International Monitoring and Benchmarking
Health and Environmental Policy
Urban, Regional and State-level Planning
International Monitoring and Benchmarking
International Monitoring and Benchmarking
International Monitoring and Benchmarking
International Monitoring and Benchmarking
International Monitoring and Benchmarking