PANDONIA GLOBAL NETWORK

In 2005 NASA initiated an effort at Goddard Space Flight Center (GFSC) to address this issue by starting to develop a cost-effective, compact, easy to deploy, ground-based, passive remote sensing spectrometer system capable of performing sun, moon and sky observations called "Pandora". Pandora has continuously evolved since then with support from NASA and ESA and has been manufactured by SciGlob LLC, Elkridge, MD, USA since 2010. Soon Pandoras were distributed around the globe to form a validation network. In 2013 ESA joined NASA in funding this development through prime contractor LuftBlick OG, Innsbruck, Austria. Since 2018, this network is called "Pandonia Global Network" (PGN) and endeavors to ensure systematic processing and dissemination of the data to the greater global community in support of air quality monitoring and satellite validation. The PGN is carried out jointly by NASA and ESA as part of their "Joint Program Planning Group Subgroup" on calibration and validation and..

Primary location: Innsbruck Austria