hackAIR: Towards Raising Awareness about Air Quality in Europe by Developing a Collective Online Platform

Although air pollution is one of the most significant environmental factors posing a threat to human health worldwide, air quality data are scarce or not easily accessible in most European countries. The current work aims to develop a centralized air quality data hub that enables citizens to contrib...

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Published in:ISPRS international journal of geo-information 2018-05, Vol.7 (5), p.187
Main Authors: Kosmidis, Evangelos, Syropoulou, Panagiota, Tekes, Stavros, Schneider, Philipp, Spyromitros-Xioufis, Eleftherios, Riga, Marina, Charitidis, Polychronis, Moumtzidou, Anastasia, Papadopoulos, Symeon, Vrochidis, Stefanos, Kompatsiaris, Ioannis, Stavrakas, Ilias, Hloupis, George, Loukidis, Andronikos, Kourtidis, Konstantinos, Georgoulias, Aristeidis, Alexandri, Georgia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air monitoring
Air pollution
Air quality
Air quality measurements
Data
Data integration
Environmental factors
Environmental monitoring
Mathematical models
Monitoring systems
Multisensor fusion
Outdoor air quality
Ozone
Pollution
Pollution monitoring
Sensors
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Summary:Although air pollution is one of the most significant environmental factors posing a threat to human health worldwide, air quality data are scarce or not easily accessible in most European countries. The current work aims to develop a centralized air quality data hub that enables citizens to contribute to air quality monitoring. In this work, data from official air quality monitoring stations are combined with air pollution estimates from sky-depicting photos and from low-cost sensing devices that citizens build on their own so that citizens receive improved information about the quality of the air they breathe. Additionally, a data fusion algorithm merges air quality information from various sources to provide information in areas where no air quality measurements exist.
ISSN:2220-9964
2220-9964
DOI:10.3390/ijgi7050187