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.