The Urban Pollution Monitoring Project
Filed under: Networks News Health
In their everyday life, people in the UK are rarely concerned with the effects of urban pollution. However, high concentrations or extended periods of exposure can have serious health effects.
Many local Councils monitor urban pollution to determine, for example, the effects of local traffic congestion. However this is usually done from a small number of sparsely distributed, though highly accurate, pollution sensors.
For the average person travelling through the city, such numbers are difficult to interpret because a single value might represent a sample several square kilometres away. However it is known that pollution levels can vary, sometimes dramatically, on a per street basis.
As the summer air starts to get a bit hazy, researchers from Imperial College demonstrate the next generation of small mobile air-quality detectors for monitoring traffic fumes.
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