New satellite observations to improve monitoring and forecasting of severe smoke pollution over SE Asia caused by Indonesian landscape burning
Lead Research Organisation:
King's College London
Department Name: NCEO Kings
Abstract
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Publications
Lestari P
(2024)
Gaseous, particulate matter, carbonaceous compound, water-soluble ion, and trace metal emissions measured from 2019 peatland fires in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan
in Atmospheric Environment
Liu Y
(2020)
Strong impacts of smoke polluted air demonstrated on the flight behaviour of the painted lady butterfly ( Vanessa cardui L.)
in Ecological Entomology
| Description | Indonesia's fires during drought periods are some of the worlds largest and most polluting. This work has enables the amounts of particulate matter and GHGs to be better estimated, enabling their impact on the atmosphere (and ultimately on human health for example) to be more precisely assessed. |
| Exploitation Route | Improved understanding of the impacts of these massive fire events can drive policy changes to mitigate against them (e.g. peatland restoration) |
| Sectors | Environment |
| Description | EO Week (UK National Earth Observation Conference 2022,) |
| Organisation | National Space Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | 2x Conference Talk Presenting Author, 2x Co-author on conference talk, 1x Special Session Chair - Presenting Author Talk "Deep-learning detection of Harmful Algal Blooms" - Presenting Author Talk "Challenges and Solutions for using Machine Learning with Earth Observation Data" - Talk Co-author "Unlocking the UCL TLS data archive with an automated tree extraction pipeline " - Talk Coauthor "The NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS): An Update on Activities" Special Session Chair "Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation" Contributed to presentation on airborne processing. Staffed the NCEO stall. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosted |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Live TV Interview on BBC World Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Live Radio interview on "Science in Action" on BBC World Service from Indonesia during our training workshop on the forest and peatland fire event which resulted in massive air pollution |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csym28 |
| Description | Training and information workshop on peat fires |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop in Indonesia on Peat Fires and their Environmental and Health Impact - held in Palangkaray, Central Kalimantan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |