Assessment of the Impact of Environmental and Economic Activities Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Earth Observation Satellite Data

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has created difficulties in daily lives and caused various changes in socioeconomic activities and environments. In response, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is considering how JAXA can contribute to our changing society. JAXA has cooperated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) in developing the Earth Observing Dashboard to provide information showing the impact of environmental and economic activities related to COVID-19 from available earth observation satellites data. The data from the three agencies includes the GOSAT, GOSAT-2, ALOS-2 and GCOM-C. This paper introduces an overview and preliminary results of this trilateral cooperation.