California Air Quality

In June of this twelvemonth Google together with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) released an interactive map of air character inwards Oakland, California. The map was the consequence of a collaboration betwixt EDF together with Google.

For this collaboration Google's Street View cars were equipped amongst sensors to mensurate nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide together with dark carbon every mo they drove the streets, spell likewise capturing the panoramic Street View imagery used on Google Maps. Google has directly completed air character tests for the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, together with California’s Central Valley.

So far no interactive maps accept been released of this data. However the Google Blog has a few videos looking at the mapped results of these air character measurements. The Aclima Blog has likewise published a issue of information stories exploring the data. In improver Google says that air character scientists tin laissez passer the sack likewise request access to the information itself.