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AQIR
Make Visible the Invisible
The problem AQIR solves
As we all know, air pollution is on the rise in today's society. Some even claim that they don't have enough time to care for the environment, and that even if they did, how would it benefit them?
What can motivate people to work for the environment?
Even e-waste is increasing on a daily basis. All e-waste put into rivers can create serious health problems, such as cancer.
Challenges we ran into
- Since every measurement is at a slightly different location, we need to group them together in a reasonable spatial resolution to allow meaningful aggregation and historical data.So this was a big challenge for us.We overcomed this and we searched for a regular grid system that covers the planet and went with the H3 Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index.
- To group the nearby measurements we poll the data which we got through Emissions API for the last several months for the India based on public domain ESA (European Space Agency) satellite data, and then combine it into a standard grid.
- We first focused upon methane which is a potent greenhouse gas.Further work would be to normalize the data to remove some of the noise/variation which was a huge challenge for us.But later we implemented it through averaging and investigated high correlation between wind/rain and pollution levels.
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