NASA Accelerates Air Quality Forecasts with RAPIDS NVIDIA Blog

Air quality is a vastly underestimated problem, said NASA research scientist Christoph Keller in a talk at this week's GTC DC, the Washington edition of NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference. Nine in 10 people breathe polluted air, and millions of deaths a year are attributed to household or outdoor air pollution. Poor air also lowers crop yields, costing billions of dollars in agricultural yield losses annually. To better understand and forecast air quality, NASA researchers are developing a machine learning model that tracks global air pollution in real time. The model also provides forecasts up to five days in advance that can help government agencies and individuals make decisions.