The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has teamed upward alongside Google to purpose Google Maps Street View cars to stair out air quality. Google's Street View cars were equipped alongside sensors to stair out nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide in addition to dark carbon equally they drove the streets capturing the panoramic Street View imagery for Google Maps.
You tin read to a greater extent than close 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 lineament in Oakland, California. The map provides iii estrus map views of Oakland's streets showing where the Street View cars constitute the highest levels of nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide in addition to dark carbon.
The map also includes a seat out of information markers to dot spots closed to Oakland alongside pockets of high pollution. If yous pick out these markers yous tin read the EDF researchers' explanation of what local causes contribute to the high pollution at this location.
This isn't the offset fourth dimension that Google has teamed upward alongside EDF to purpose Street View cars equally criterion tools. In 2014 Google teamed upward alongside the Environmental Defense Fund to equip Street View cars alongside air-quality sensors to abide by natural gas leaks from utility pipes nether urban essence streets. Using the information collected yesteryear the Street View cars Google in addition to EDF in addition to therefore created detailed maps showing where gas leaks were constitute in addition to where gas pipes involve to survive fixed or replaced.
In July 2014 the EDF released maps from the experiment inwards New York, Boston in addition to Philadelphia. The maps revealed that Boston in addition to New York's ageing utility pipes effect inwards a large seat out of leaks, spell 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 in addition to Pasadena. You tin meet 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 close 1 leak for every 4 miles driven inwards Pasadena, 1 leak for every 5 miles inwards Inglewood in addition to 1 leak for every 5 miles inwards Chino.
