Why air pollution can be worse across the street
Portable air sensors are changing the way we see air pollution.
Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Y9n6fhoxI
If you’re curious about your own neighborhood’s air quality, you can also build your own air sensor! The video above shows you how to build a DIY air sensor from a Raspberry Pi computer. You can learn more about the project from Pimoroni as well: https://learn.pimoroni.com/tut....orial/sandyj/getting
Several studies have made use of similar DIY air sensors, like this study measuring black carbon in Oakland, or this project measuring air pollution around the world. Graeme Carvlin (featured in the video) even built his own network of air sensors to study air pollution in Imperial County in Southern California.
Sources:
Graeme Carvlin | Puget Sound Clean Air Agency
Marcel Jones | Associated Resource Council Rec Tech program | https://arcseattle.org/RecTech
Air sensor lending library | Puget Sound Clean Air Agency | https://www.pscleanair.org/539/Air-Quality-Sensors
Air sensor toolbox | EPA | https://www.epa.gov/air-sensor-toolbox
“A distributed network of 100 black carbon sensors for 100 days of air quality monitoring in West Oakland, California” | Caubel, et al. | https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b00282
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