Links to Health and Air Quality Community

You’ll find below an ever-evolving list of brief descriptions and links to resources in the wider air-quality and public-health community.

  • Health and Air Quality Community Forum: This forum is platform to help grow partnership and collaboration around health and air quality data products, with an emphasis on satellite data.
  • GEO Health Community of Practice: The GEO Health Community of Practice is a global network of governments, organizations, and observers.  It seeks to use environmental observations to improve health decision-making at the international, regional, country, and district levels.
  • NASA Applied Sciences Program: Explore practical uses for NASA’s Earth observations.
  • NASA Health and Air Quality Program: Learn more about how NASA encourages the use of Earth observations to improve public health and air quality. [Note: Site is under construction in 2025].
  • NASA Air Quality from Space: Summary of examples of applications of NASA data for air quality.
  • NASA Earth Observations: An outstanding resource to find images of  climate and environmental change as they occur on our home planet. Browse and download imagery of satellite data from NASA’s constellation of Earth Observing System satellites.
  • EPA AirNow: AirNow reports air quality using the official U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI), a color-coded index designed to communicate whether air quality is healthy or unhealthy for you.
  • OpenAQ: OpenAQ is the world’s largest open-source, open-access database of real-time and historical ground-level air quality measurements.
  • Real-Time Air Quality Index: Get near-real-time data on the air quality for your city.
  • State of Global Air: A great catch-all for air quality data and the effect that air quality has on health.