THE Korean International Cooperation Agency (Koica) and the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) have signed a partnership agreement to strengthen the national capacity to monitor the condition of air quality and improve air quality plans and policies in the Philippines.

The agreement will utilize the Pan-Asia Partnership for Geospatial Air Pollution Information and the Pandora Asia Network project, which is a technology-transfer, data sharing, and capacity building initiative on air pollution. It uses data from the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) aboard the Geo-Kompsat-2B satellite, which will be complemented by ground-based remote sensing instruments called Pandora.