Professor Jung Myung-jae from the Department of Atmospheric Environment Science of Wonju University in Kangnung won the NASA Group Achievement Award

NASA sent a Group Achievement Award to Professor Jung Myeong-jae (Department of Atmospheric Environment Science, March 1, 2011 ~ April 25, 2014), who participated in the mission of field KORUS-AQ. KORUS-AQ (KOREA United States Air Quality Study) is an on-site campaign that studies Korea's air quality through joint ROK-US cooperation.

Professor Chung Myeong-Jae, scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GFSC), has successfully conducted NASA field missions such as BASE-ASIA (2006) and NAMMA (Saharan dust storms in Africa In addition to the Group Achievement Award (2007), he received the Outstanding Scientific Support Award (2007), Outstanding Performance Award-Science Research (2007) and NASA's Best Paper Award (2009).

Developed an innovative method for derivation of aerosol altitude information by combining MODIS sensor and IMO satellite data on terra and aqua satellites, and provided MODIS Collection 6 reference data provided by NASA only in the past Air for a clear area (vegetation, desert area, etc.) where the soil surface did not come Leaving the work for the development of a computational algorithm of optical ground thickness (deep aerosol blue search algorithm) and develop.

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