COIVD-19 IMPACT MONITORING OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has had substantial impacts on the Earth system and socioeconomic activities. Restrictions aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19 by limiting human interaction have led to significant reductions in air pollution and CO2 emissions, improvement in water quality, changes in agricultural output, and changes in economic activity for certain industries such as airlines and shipping, among others [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Those economic impact assessment related information are made available on the trilateral COVID-19 Earth Observing Dashboard (https//eodashboard.org) [6]. The presented use cases in economic activities make full use of the combined satellites fleet of NASA, ESA and JAXA as well as the expertise of the Earth Observation community. © 2021 IEEE.