Spatio-temporal data on the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide derived from Sentinel satellite for France

Abstract

Monitoring of air pollution is an important task in public health. Availability of data is often hindered by the paucity of the ground monitoring station network. We present here a new spatio-temporal dataset collected and processed from the Sentinel 5P remote sensing platform. As an example application, we applied the full workflow to process measurements of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) collected over the territory of mainland France from May 2018 to June 2019. The data stack generated is daily measurements at a 4 × 7 km spatial resolution. The supplementary Python code package used to collect and process the data is made publicly available. The dataset provided in this article is of value for policy-makers and health assessment.