This interview originally aired on In the Moment on SDPB Radio.
Thanks to Canada's wildfire-filled summer, air quality across the United States dipped several times into unhealthy margins.
New research coming out of South Dakota State University is hoping to provide better air quality measurements.
Xiaoyang Zhang, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences. He's also the co-director of the Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence.
Fangjun Li, Ph.D.,is an assistant research professor in the Center.
They join In the Moment to talk about making air quality estimations more accurate and more global.
