A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and convene a workshop to explore advances in and emerging uses of remote geospatial technologies (e.g., satellite-based earth sensing) in environmental health (the effect of environmental exposures on human health) research and policy. The workshop will bring together experts in geospatial technologies, environmental health, data integration and modeling, and public health policy to highlight rapidly advancing efforts to leverage remote geospatial sensors and models for:

1. identifying, understanding and mitigating environmental contributions to adverse health outcomes and disease (e.g., environmental contributors to global burden of disease and models of infectious disease spread);
2. predicting and monitoring locations where populations are at most risk for environmental exposures;
3. directing timely responses to environmental-related disasters (natural (e.g., wildfires) and human-caused); and
4. generating new hypotheses and driving discovery on environmental health issues.

Workshop discussions will delineate the opportunities and barriers for use of remote geospatial technologies to inform and improve emerging work in precision public health (right time, right population public health interventions) and other environmental health decision-making. In addition to discussions of remote geospatial data sources and applications, topics will include integrating remote geospatial data with other environmental exposure and health outcomes data and ethical uses of remote geospatial data.

The presentations and discussions at the workshop will be documented in a workshop proceedings, written by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.