Since more than 30 years Space has brought us information on our atmosphere and satellites from the European Space Agency and the European Union’s Copernicus programme do monitor the air quality across the globe and in Europe in particular.

With air quality a serious concern, the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite was launched in 2017 to map a multitude of air pollutants around the globe. Copernicus Sentinel-5P carries the Tropomi instrument – a state-of-the-art instrument that detects the unique fingerprint of atmospheric gases to image air pollutants more accurately and at a higher spatial resolution than ever before.