The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has teamed upward alongside Google to purpose Google Maps Street View cars to mensurate air quality. Google's Street View cars were equipped alongside sensors to mensurate nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide as well as dark carbon every bit they drove the streets capturing the panoramic Street View imagery for Google Maps.
You tin laissez passer on the axe read to a greater extent than nearly the experiment on EDF's article, Mapping Air Pollution alongside New Sensors. The article includes a Google Map of the results from testing the air character in Oakland, California. The map provides 3 oestrus map views of Oakland's streets showing where the Street View cars flora the highest levels of nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide as well as dark carbon.
The map also includes a number of information markers to shout for spots approximately Oakland alongside pockets of high pollution. If you lot choose these markers you lot tin laissez passer on the axe read the EDF researchers' explanation of what local causes contribute to the high pollution at this location.
This isn't the outset fourth dimension that Google has teamed upward alongside EDF to purpose Street View cars every bit measurement tools. In 2014 Google teamed upward alongside the Environmental Defense Fund to equip Street View cars alongside air-quality sensors to notice natural gas leaks from utility pipes nether metropolis streets. Using the information collected yesteryear the Street View cars Google as well as EDF as well as then created detailed maps showing where gas leaks were flora as well as where gas pipes postulate to survive fixed or replaced.
In July 2014 the EDF released maps from the experiment inwards New York, Boston as well as Philadelphia. The maps revealed that Boston as well as New York's ageing utility pipes number inwards a large number of leaks, patch Philadelphia's newer gas pipage network is responsible for far fewer leaks.
Google also used their peculiarly equipped Street View cars to map out to a greater extent than than 1,000 miles of roads inwards Inglewood, Chino as well as Pasadena. You tin laissez passer on the axe come across the results of these exam drives inwards the EDF's Los Angeles Area: Snapshot of Natural Gas Leaks map. The information gathered revealed an average of nearly 1 leak for every 4 miles driven inwards Pasadena, 1 leak for every v miles inwards Inglewood as well as 1 leak for every v miles inwards Chino.
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