Sentences with phrase «monitor urban air»
To monitor urban air quality, environmental agencies typically measure pollutant concentrations in samples collected at centralized outdoor locations and extrapolate individuals» average exposures from those measurements.
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In its latest move, Google joined forces with Aclima, a startup that designs, deploys and manages environmental sensor networks, to monitor air quality in urban environments using Google's Street View vehicles on Tuesday.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Tuesday that its latest air monitoring program near the Peace Bridge shows the air people breathe in adjacent neighborhoods beset by high asthma rates is comparable to other similarly sized cities and high - traffic urban areas.
The sites were located across a variety of different urban temperatures, and air temperature was monitored at each site over the course of the experiment.
Other measures are aimed at the mitigation of «heat islands» through urban planning, the adaptation of housing design to local climate and expanding air conditioning, shifts in work patterns and mortality monitoring (Keatinge et al., 2000; Ballester et al., 2003; Johnson et al., 2005; Marttila et al., 2005; Penning - Rowsell et al., 2005).