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NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (Earth Observing System) (LANCE) supports users interested in monitoring and analyzing a wide variety of natural and man-made phenomena in Near Real-Time (NRT). This chapter provides descriptions of how LANCE products are being used and key lessons learned about delivering these products to end-users. The applications of LANCE data and imagery described in this chapter include: agricultural monitoring, volcano monitoring, aerosol forecasting, short-term weather forecasting, supplying ships with ice conditions, planning flights near hurricanes, monitoring air quality, and the use of fire email alerts to warn of illegal fires in protected forests.
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For more information about the AQI, go to http://www.airnow.gov.
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Correspondence and informal interviews with users and feedback from users through the NASA EOSDIS User Support Tool.
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Davies, D. et al. (2015). The Use of NASA LANCE Imagery and Data for Near Real-Time Applications. In: Lippitt, C., Stow, D., Coulter, L. (eds) Time-Sensitive Remote Sensing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2602-2_11
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