Street Sentiment Cars For Science

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has teamed upwardly 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 too dark carbon equally they drove the streets capturing the panoramic Street View imagery for Google Maps.

You tin read to a greater extent than virtually 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 3 oestrus map views of Oakland's streets showing where the Street View cars industrial plant life the highest levels of nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide too dark carbon.

The map also includes a divulge of information markers to betoken spots roughly Oakland alongside pockets of high pollution. If you lot pick out these markers you lot tin read the EDF researchers' explanation of what local causes contribute to the high pollution at this location.


This isn't the kickoff fourth dimension that Google has teamed upwardly alongside EDF to purpose Street View cars equally standard tools. In 2014 Google teamed upwardly alongside the Environmental Defense Fund to equip Street View cars alongside air-quality sensors to discover natural gas leaks from utility pipes nether metropolis streets. Using the information collected yesteryear the Street View cars Google too EDF too hence created detailed maps showing where gas leaks were industrial plant life too where gas pipes ask to endure fixed or replaced.

In July 2014 the EDF released maps from the experiment inwards New York, Boston too Philadelphia. The maps revealed that Boston too New York's ageing utility pipes outcome inwards a large divulge of leaks, piece Philadelphia's newer gas piping 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 too Pasadena. You tin run 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 virtually i leak for every 4 miles driven inwards Pasadena, i leak for every 5 miles inwards Inglewood too i leak for every 5 miles inwards Chino.