The US space agency has collaborated with Google to help local governments improve their monitoring and prediction of air quality. NASA and Google will develop advanced machine learning-based algorithms that will link space data with Google Earth Engine data streams to generate high-resolution air quality maps in near real-time. Mrs. Rebecca Moore, Google′s director of Google Earth, Earth Engine, and Outreach, stated that the company will collaborate with NASA to make daily air quality more actionable at the local level. She added that the results generated by the algorithm will create a city-scale, near real-time estimation and forecast of harmful pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), air pollution is responsible for about 7 million deaths worldwide each year. Meanwhile, Dr. Pawan Gupta, senior scientist with Universities Space Research Association (USRA) at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, added that this partnership is a major step toward integrating air pollution data from a range of critical sources, from ground-level observations to satellite data, into advanced machine learning algorithms. Mrs. Moore noted that this scientific research partnership with NASA will help in improving the resolution, validation, and usefulness of air quality maps in both space and time, hence providing data that can be used to design measures to ensure cleaner air. 

(Source: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/health/nasa-google-to-help-track-air-pollution-at-local-level-432350#google_vignette )