Visa to pull in Finland "2018 world challenge" contest for ease environmental air pollution solution

2018 world challenge contest in Finland, visa company through to explore new ideas, solutions and application solutions, combined with high resolution satellite observations, ground measurement network field data and advanced air quality model, to alleviate environmental air pollution with new products and solutions.The competition organized by Finland digital BBS and Ultrahack.The U.S. space agency NASA and the European space agency (NASA) for participating parties provide virtual earth platform, Web WorldWind and expert advice.

"Challenge of the world", literally, is the world's challenge - and respond to the United Nations (UN) students, academics and industries, the European space agency and NASA's call that "for the benefit of all people" to world peace, health, ecology, education and sustainable development to provide innovative solutions.Was developed on the basis of open competition aims to satellite data, to improve the quality of the earth to survive.

Urban air pollution on the world's ten million people's health and quality of life constitute a major threat.High spatial resolution of air quality forecast, can accurately found the emission source with the combination of a comprehensive grasp of the local weather, to support decision making and assist the implementation of preventive measures to reduce emissions.

"For the visa to alleviate air pollution challenges when developing applications, contestants can take advantage of the Helsinki metropolitan area as a pilot of the environment.Data will be used by Copernicus sentry 5 pilot Tropomi instrument on the satellite and the Finnish meteorological bureau ENFUSER provided data modeling tool, the tool will be ground air quality measurements and sources of information, become a street map of air quality in real time.The Finnish meteorological institute online open data services also provide local meteorological observation data, "visa, head of the air qualityJohn LiljelundSaid.

"The commercial potential of satellite observation data for Finland created a huge potential competitiveness.Want to surrounding space activities to build a reliable domestic ecosystem, first we need to have the ability to let the good companies and professionals to join in.We learned from last year's challenge, this pattern makes good developer skills in using the satellite data are more like a duck to water, and to participate in the activities of the space, "the chief executive of Finland digital BBSJuhani KivikangasSaid.