A5065537701- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Topic Modeling
- Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Software Engineering Research
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Software Reliability and Analysis Research
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Noise Effects and Management
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Higher Education and Employability
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
NILU
2015-2024
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
1995-2020
Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
2020
Kjeller Innovasjon (Norway)
2014-2015
Fundación General
2011-2013
Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies
2007-2012
Universitat de València
2000
The emergence of low-cost, user-friendly and very compact air pollution platforms enable observations at high spatial resolution in near-real-time provide new opportunities to simultaneously enhance existing monitoring systems, as well engage citizens active environmental monitoring. This provides a whole set capabilities the assessment human exposure pollution. However, data generated by these are often questionable quality. We have conducted an exhaustive evaluation 24 identical units...
The recent emergence of low-cost microsensors measuring various air pollutants has significant potential for carrying out high-resolution mapping quality in the urban environment. However, data obtained by such sensors are generally less reliable than that from standard equipment and they subject to gaps both space time. In order overcome this issue, we present here a fusion method based on geostatistics allows merging observations network with spatial information an urban-scale model....
The 1st EuNetAir Air Quality Joint Intercomparison Exercise organized in Aveiro (Portugal) from 13th–27th October 2014, focused on the evaluation and assessment of environmental gas, particulate matter (PM) meteorological microsensors, versus standard air quality reference methods through an experimental urban monitoring campaign. IDAD-Institute Environment Development Mobile Laboratory was placed at traffic location city centre to conduct continuous measurements with equipment analysers for...
The assumption that vegetation improves air quality is prevalent in scientific, popular, and political discourse. However, experimental modeling studies show the effect of green space on pollutant concentrations urban settings highly variable context specific. We revisited link between using satellite-derived changes from 2,615 established monitoring stations over Europe United States. Between 2010 2019, recorded declines ambient NO 2 , (particulate matter) PM 10 2.5 (average −3.14% y −1 ),...
In Norway, children in kindergartens spend significant time outdoors under all weather conditions, and there is thus a natural concern about the quality of outdoor air. It well known that air pollution associated with wide variety adverse health impacts for children, greater impact on asthma. Especially during winter spring, Oslo are situated close to streets busy traffic, or areas where wood burning used house heating, can experience many days bad quality. During these periods, updated...
The increased availability of commercially-available low-cost air quality sensors combined with interest in their use by citizen scientists, community groups, and professionals is resulting rapid adoption, despite data concerns. We have characterized three out-the-box PM sensor systems under different environmental conditions, using field colocation against reference equipment. integrate Plantower 5003, Sensirion SPS30 Alphasense OCP-N3 sensors. first two photometry as a measuring technique,...
Research communities, engagement campaigns, and administrative agents are increasingly valuing low-cost air-quality monitoring technologies, despite data quality concerns. Mobile sensors have already been used for delivering a spatial representation of pollutant concentrations, though less attention is given to their uncertainty quantification. Here, we perform static/on-bike inter-comparison tests assess the performance Snifferbike sensor kit in measuring outdoor PM2.5 (Particulate Matter <...
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVViewpointNEXTToward a Unified Terminology of Processing Levels for Low-Cost Air-Quality SensorsPhilipp Schneider*Philipp SchneiderNILU - Norwegian Institute Air Research, PO Box 100, Kjeller, Norway*E-mail: [email protected]More by Philipp Schneiderhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-5686-8683, Alena BartonovaAlena BartonovaNILU NorwayMore Bartonova, Nuria CastellNuria CastellNILU Castell, Franck R. DaugeFranck DaugeNILU Dauge, Michel GerbolesMichel GerbolesEuropean...
Cities are currently at the core of air quality (AQ) improvement. The present work provides an overview AQ management strategies and outcomes in 10 European cities (Antwerp, Berlin, Dublin, Madrid, Malmö, Milan, Paris, Plovdiv, Prague, Vienna) 2018, their evolution since 2013 (same cities, plus Ploiesti Vilnius), based on first-hand input from managers. status mitigation its 2013, were assessed. While results evidenced that majority targeted road traffic, emerging sources such as inland...
During the last decade, extensive research has been carried out on subject of low-cost sensor platforms for air quality monitoring. A key aspect when deploying such systems is measured data. Calibration especially important to improve data monitoring devices. The must comply with regulations issued by national or international authorities in order be used regulatory purposes. This work discusses challenges and methods suitable calibrating a platform developed our group, Airify, that unit...
Citizen Observatories (COs) empower residents to become active contributors the observation and management of their local environments. Instrumented with low-cost sensors, communities can monitor environment. However, data insights from COs do not always contribute policy development. To address this challenge, CitiObs project (www.citiobs.eu) is developing tools, methodologies approaches enhance in observing, monitoring, protecting urban environment, a focus on air...
Over the last decade, low-cost sensors (LCSs) have improved air quality monitoring by enabling widespread, community-driven data collection, particularly in regions with limited resources. Although these LCSs increased public engagement and enriched datasets for understanding pollution dynamics, challenges related to quality, standardization, interoperability hindered their full integration into regulatory frameworks large-scale environmental (Barkjohn et al., 2024; Carotenuto 2023). The...
Low-cost sensors are revolutionizing air quality monitoring, especially in under-resourced regions like Kenya. These devices enable affordable, localized data collection, which allows communities to identify pollution hotspots, raise awareness, and advocate for action. However, their integration into formal regulatory frameworks remains limited due concerns over reliability perceived shortcomings compared traditional systems (Lewis et al., 2016).Many African cities face mounting challenges...
Indoor air quality (IAQ) plays a vital role in providing healthier indoor environments, especially considering that most human activities occur indoors.&#160; Since and outdoor pollutants are closely interrelated, monitoring both can provide insights into IAQ dynamics.&#160;&#160; The IDEAL (Indoor Air Quality Health) Cluster comprises seven Horizon-Europe funded projects (InChildHealth, INQUIRE, LEARN, K-HealthinAIR, SynAir-G, TWINAIR, EDIAQI) the Working Group (WG) on Sensors...
Low-cost air quality sensors have the potential to complement regulatory network of monitoring stations, with respect increased spatial density observations, however, their data continues be concern. Here we report on our experience a small open low-cost sensor systems for quality, which was deployed in region Stavanger, Norway, under Nordic winter conditions. The consisted AirSensEUR systems, equipped for, among others, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter. were co-located at an...