Since May 2021, I am working as a research intern at The Vision and Analytics Lab, University College Dublin, Ireland, under the guidance of Prof. Soumyabrata Dev. The research lies in the area of application of deep learning in the area of remote sensing of atmospheric pollutant concentrations.

The aim of this research is to develop a deep learning based method to estimate the concentration of Nitrogen Dioxide(NO2) near the surface from satellite observations of Tropospheric Column NO2. NO2 is one of the major atmospheric pollutants, produced due to fire, vehicle emissions and industries. The ground based monitoring stations only provide local estimates of its concentration. For truly global monitoring, it is imperative that satellite observations be used. However satellites can only measure NO2 concentrations for tropospheric column or total column. Tropospheric column measurement refers to concentration in a column extending from the surface to the top of the troposphere. We believe our work will contribute to the advancement of the field of satellite based remote sensing since the application of deep learning is relatively new to this field

A research paper titled "Estimating Ground-level Nitrogen Dioxide Concentration from Satellite Data" has been presented at PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 2021

Currently further research on this topic is being continued and we aim to develop better and more robust methodologies to tackle the problem.