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This study illustrates the largely untapped potential to leverage EPA's ground monitoring networks using remotely sensed imagery, ancillary information, and pollutant fate and transport models. Remote sensing of air quality is rapidly advancing thanks to new or planned sensor systems deployed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest but is likely to have permanently shifted the public perspective on what is considered clean air and the relative health risks associated with airborne contaminants, both biological and abiological. Public health policy and communications during the pandemic (in particular, the evolving views among medical and public health professionals on the role of airborne transmission in the spread of COVID-19 disease)
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. Because EPA depends on federal and state partners for much of the information on biodiversity and ecosystem function that it uses to assess ecological risks and ecosystem services, technological advances in biomonitoring indirectly benefit EPA by improving the quality and quantity of information provided by those partners.
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For example, thermal stratification and fish thermal preference explain vertical eDNA distributions in lakes (Littlefair et al., 2020)
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NASA plans to install the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation on the International Space Station to map the surface mineralogy of global dust source regions including large regions of the western and midwestern United States. NASA's Surface Biology and Geology (SBG)
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. The NASA Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program,7 which was established to identify, evaluate, and acquire commercial Smallsat data, is a good source of information on this rapidly expanding frontier of Earth remote sensing.
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2020. Monitoring tropical forest degradation using spec tral unmixing and Landsat time series analysis.
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2018. Advances in multiangle satellite remote sensing of speciated airborne particulate matter and association with adverse health effects: From MISR to MAIA.
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2016. Monitoring plant functional diversity from space.
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2020. Thermal strat ification and fish thermal preference explain vertical eDNA distributions in lakes.
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2022. Human-health impacts of controlling secondary air pollution precursors.
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2020. Continuous moni toring of land disturbance based on Landsat time series.
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Appendix D Biotechnology For the purposes of this discussion, we consider "biotechnology" to refer to methods, products, and processes other than selective breeding and sexually crossing organisms to endow new characteristics in organisms.
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