Google street view cars expose unknown air pollution sources
Google Street View cars were recently used to detect hyper-local air pollution hotspots in Salt Lake Valley.
Source: earth.com
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'Roving sentinels' discover new air pollution
<p>The researchers loaded <a href="https://unews.utah.edu/google-cars/">the vehicles</a> with air quality instrumentation and directed drivers to trawl through neighborhoods street by street, taking one air sample per second to create a massive dataset of air pollutant concentrations in the Salt Lake Valley from May 2019 to March 2020. The observations yielded the highest-resolution map yet of pollution hotspots at fine scales—the data captured variability within 200 meters, or about two football fields. Air quality patterns were...
Source: eurekalert.org
How a new tool can track sources of pollution in Salt Lake Valley
A first-of-its-kind, research-grade pollution tracking tool has been unveiled for three cities across the country, including Salt Lake City.
Source: ksl.com
New public research tool tracks fine particulate pollution in SLC
A new public tracking tool debuted in just three cities across the country, and Salt Lake City is one of them. It can provide users information on wildfire smoke or even smoke from fireworks. Air Tracker is also being used in Pittsburgh and Houston.
Source: deseret.com