air pollutant Articles
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4 Pillars of Smart Cities of India and the Role of Smart Environment Sensors - Air Quality Monitoring for Smart City Infrastructure
Urban Air Pollution Monitoring in Smart City Problem As of 2018, 33.2% of the Indian population resides in urban areas. Hence, the expansion of cities has led to an increase in automobiles, industrial production, and rapid deforestation. Consequently, air pollution and environmental deterioration have reached an alarming stage. One of the fundamental features of smart cities is providing a ...
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Mining Emissions Effectively Monitored with Micro Pulse LiDAR Technology
Micro Pulse LiDAR is an effective tool for monitoring and measuring dust and emissions produced by mining operations. Mining operations include blasting, excavating, scraping, and sifting large amounts of dirt. These activities create dust and other emissions that are transported by air currents to surrounding areas. It is easy to say that dangerous particulate matter (PM) generated by mining ...
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Cities in France become smarter thanks to Lufft Sensors
CITYRAMA Smart Data for Smart Cities, is a French company and a subsidiary of Mobile Tech People (DPW), is an IoT (Internet of Things) platform for intelligent city management. It was founded in 2015 and provides PaaS (Platform as a Service) turnkey solutions for data collection and analysis in which everything is included – from the sensors and connectors to the customized dashboards ...
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How does living with aircraft noise affect wellbeing? A study of UK airports
Airports are associated with air and noise pollution and may, therefore, reduce the quality of life of local people. This study assessed the link between aircraft noise and subjective wellbeing, using data from 17 English airports. The authors conclude that living under flight paths has a negative effect on people’s overall wellbeing, equivalent to around half of the effect of being a ...
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Airparif uses Isatis to process 11 million+ mesh grids and generate daily air quality maps - Case Study
Isatis has been part of Airparif data processing workflow for 10+ years. The software is used daily to gather data and map air pollution over Paris area. The facts Airparif is part of the French AASQA network (“Associations Agréées de Surveillance de la Qualité de l’Air”). The AASQA are a French non-profit association accredited by the French Ministry of ...
By Geovariances
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EEA Annual Work Programme 2015
EEA MISSION AND GOALS In line with its Multiannual Work Programme 2014-2018 (MAWP), the EEA, according to its mission, aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvements in Europe’s environment, through the provision of relevant, reliable, timely, and targeted information to policy-making agents and the public. The EEA operates in a complex ...
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Ecological assessment of developing carbon sequestration in Shenyang, China
Carbon sequestration in urban ecosystems is becoming an international climate change initiative for sustainable development. Drawing upon field work undertaken in the author's native Shenyang, China, this research reports upon the natural process of carbon sequestration from the atmosphere into urban ecosystems. The risks associated within carbon sequestration in urban ecosystems are investigated ...
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A GIS based air quality system for the Apulia region, southern Italy
A GIS based air quality modelling system has been developed in Apulia region in the Southern Italy, to support local authorities in air quality management. Meteorological and dispersion simulations were performed for the year 2005. Predictions have been compared with concentration data from the air quality monitoring network. Results evidence a good correlation between predictions and ...
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Evaluation of AirGIS: a GIS–based air pollution and human exposure modelling system
This study describes in brief the latest extensions of the Danish Geographic Information System (GIS)–based air pollution and human exposure modelling system (AirGIS), which has been developed in Denmark since 2001 and gives results of an evaluation with measured air pollution data. The system shows, in general, a good performance for both long–term averages (annual and monthly averages), ...
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Why city resilience will be an issue at Rio+20
Once, the word of the moment was sustainability, and within years sustainable development became a widely-used to concept. Now, the popular term is "resilience", and the resilience of cities to environmental and social pressures is seen as a major issue for governments and peoples around the world. This concept underlay many of the events at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi (12-15 December), ...
By SciDev.Net
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ADMS and ADMS-Urban
ADMS and ADMS-Urban are new generation air quality models that are easy to use and attractively presented. They run on a PC under Windows and are suitable for modelling of industrial and urban dispersion problems for comparison with limits, planning, and 'what if' scenarios. Each model can be linked to a GIS (geographical information system) for simple entry of sources and clear presentation of ...
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Meteo-geographical data input tools used with ATD Demokritos code
Geographical and meteorological data input tools used with the Demokritos atmospheric transport dispersion code system are specifically designed for dispersion computations over complex terrain. The code initialisation depends mainly on the topography simulator (DELTA), which provides detailed information with respect to orography, land-cover, roughness and inclination, orientation and area of ...
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A methodology for developing Distributed Generation scenarios in urban areas using geographical information systems
The implementation of Distributed Generation (DG) may lead to increased pollutant emissions that adversely affect air quality. This work presents a systematic methodology to characterise DG installation in urban basins. First, a set of parameters that characterise a DG implementation scenario is described. Second, a general approach using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data is presented. ...
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Reconciling technological viability with social feasibility: the case of natural pozzolans for sustainable development
Appropriate technologies can meet the basic needs of the poor by providing cost-effective, environmentally friendly solutions to socio-economic dilemmas. Natural pozzolans have the potential to make development more sustainable by lowering building costs and reducing pollution. However the social context of sustainable development constrains technological solutions. These solutions may seem ...
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Estimating the spatial-temporal distribution of Radon releases from the K-65 silos
This study investigates the spatial and temporal distribution of Radon at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Fernald Environmental Management Project (FEMP), in southwest Ohio in 1999. It employs the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Industrial Source Complex Short Term 3 (ISCST3) dispersion model, existing monitoring data and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as tools to ...
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Development of a GIS-based urban air quality modelling system for transport-related pollution
In recent years motor vehicles have become the dominant source of air pollution in metropolitan areas. Hence, the assessment of transport-related air quality is of major concern to policymakers and municipal planners. This paper describes an urban air quality modelling system for evaluating the environmental effects of transport related air pollution. A preliminary evaluation of the model has ...
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A decision support system for air quality management combining GIS and optimisation techniques
This paper describes a multi-tiered approach to the design of plans and policies for urban environmental management, in particular air quality, as related to the energy and transportation sectors. The approach is based on the iterative combination of sectoral and global optimisation models, including a discrete multi-criteria approach, and spatially distributed air quality models. The approach ...
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SICAH: an automatic system for the control and prevention of air pollution in Huelva (Spain)
An automatic system for control of the air pollution in the industrialised area of Huelva has being developed by CIEMAT. This system is called "Sistema informatico para control y prevencion de la contaminacion atmosferica en Huelva" (SICAH). SICAH is a Visual C++ programme that runs under Windows 95/NT. SICAH includes a Geographic Information System (GIS) and runs Fortran numerical ...
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Analytical Support for Cost-Effective Pollution Control
' Analytical tools have been developed by the World Bank Group to estimate rapidly the extent and impacts of pollution in a given situation and to support decisions on pollution management. These tools help decision makers to overcome the frequent lack of data on emissions from different sources, their impact on ambient quality, and mitigation alternatives.' Decision Support System for ...
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