Pukyong National University

PKNU research team participates in 'CINDI-3 campaign' for international performance evaluation of atmospheric remote sensing equipment

- prof. Lee Han-Lim team developed the atmospheric remote sensing equipment for air quality analysis

△ International research teams posing for a group photo.

A research team from Pukyong National University participated in the 'CINDI-3 campaign' for the international performance evaluation of atmospheric remote sensing equipment, held in Cabauw, Netherlands, under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands meteorological institute (KNMI).

'CINDI-3', held for the third time following previous events in 2009 and 2016, aims to verify the performance of ground-based remote sensing equipment and the accuracy of environmental satellite data through mutual comparison of equipment operated by various countries.

In addition to Pukyong National University and the National institute of environmental research from South Korea, participants include the National aeronautics and space administration (NASA) from the USA, the Max planck institute for chemistry (MPIC) from Germany, the Belgian institute for space aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), the Rutherford appleton laboratory (RAL) from the UK, and the Laboratoire atmosph？res, milieux, observations spatiales (LATMOS) from France, among more than 30 institutions worldwide.

Pukyong National University, led by professor Lee's team from the division of earth and environmental system sciences, is participating in this international performance evaluation with the ground-based remote sensing equipment 'AQ profiler', developed jointly with the National institute of environmental research, from May 21 to June 21.

The 'AQ profiler' is the first domestically produced equipment based on UV-VIS spectroscopy, capable of measuring the vertical distribution of gases (NO2, O3, O4, HCHO, etc.) and aerosols in the atmosphere.

Graduate students Park Gyeong and Lee Kang-Ham from the division of earth and environmental system sciences at Pukyong National University are participating in the campaign alongside researcher Kim Dae-Won from the Environmental research institute at Pusan national university, observing atmospheric nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, and conducting inter-comparison studies between equipment.

Pukyong National University and the National institute of environmental research expect that participating in this international performance evaluation will contribute to the performance assessment of measurement equipment and the expansion of the use of measured data. <Pukyong Today>

△ 'AQ profiler', ground-based remote sensing equipment