AUSTRALIAN scientists are mapping grass pollen levels across the country from space, in a plan to develop an early warning system for asthma sufferers on high-danger days, reports ABC News.
A geospatial ecologist who has worked with NASA, Professor Alfredo Heute from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is using 40 years of satellite images to map high vegetation areas and pollen release.
"If we can collect what the satellite sees at pollen traps, we can extend the information outward to cover an entire city, and the nation," he said.
Queensland University of Technology Associate Professor Janet Davies is leading the team.
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