hackAIR: Towards raising awareness about air quality in Europe by developing a collective online platform
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 K.; Alexandri, Georgia
Journal article, Peer reviewed
Published version
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2498140Utgivelsesdato
2018Metadata
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10.3390/ijgi7050187Sammendrag
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.