The Pandora Project

The Pandora Project began in 2005 based on an instrument prototype that would eventually be called Pandora. The instrument was developed by Jay Herman, Nader Abuhassan, and Alexander Cede.

The Pandora Project coordinates and facilitates an expanding global network of standardized, calibrated Pandora instruments focused on air quality and atmospheric composition. This larger effort in collaboration with ESA is known as the Pandonia Global Network (PGN) which endeavors to ensure systematic processing and dissemination of the data to the greater global community in support of in-situ and remotely sensed AQ monitoring.

A major joint objective is to support the validation and verification of more than a dozen low-earth orbit and geostationary orbit based UV-visible sensors, most notably Sentinel 5P, TEMPO, GEMS and Sentinel 4. The NASA Pandora Project works with its ESA partners to provide real-time, standardized, calibrated and verified QA/QC AQ data.