AirPhoton, a tech company working out of bwtech@UMBC, recently received a contract to provide instruments for an air quality investigation being conducted by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, according to the company.
The company will provide ground instruments as part of MAIA, or Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols. The project aims to collect high quality data about the particles within air pollution with a satellite being developed by JPL. The goal is to better understand links between specific pollutants measured from space and specific health risks on the ground. The team involved believes the research can help inform how governments, scientists, and health providers should focus their efforts when it comes addressing the risks of air pollution.
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