On May 18-19, 2021 the National Ozone Unit of the Ministry of Environment jointly with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization conducted a training course for the representatives of the «Hydrometeorology and Monitoring Center» SNCO under the «Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building» Project.
The main purpose of the training on the «Remote Sensing for Ozone Layer Monitoring» was to introduce the remote sensing and its capacity for ozone layer monitoring, to develop capacity for utilizing the open data sources to retrieve space-born data, as well as introduce the tools for spatial data processing, analyzing, and visualization as a final product.
The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) and the Copernicus Open Access Hub have been introduced to receive data on Total Ozone Column and Tropospheric Ozone Column. To process and visualize the acquired data, the SNAP (Sentinel Application Platform) and QGIS have been used. Both are free and open-source software.
Henceforth, the «Hydrometeorology and Monitoring Center» SNCO will be applying the TROPOMI and the Copernicus Open Access Hub for the ozone layer monitoring purposes.