ECOEXPLORER LIFE99 ENV/IT/000131 - Environmental Control Observatory. Exploration of Pollution Levels on the Road for Ecological Realtime Survey
Overview
Background & policy context:
European and National laws oblige local authorities to monitor urban pollution, this includes atmospheric, acoustic and electromagnetic pollution. Fixed monitoring stations enable local authorities to comply with the obligation for checking atmospheric emissions, but are not satisfactory with respect to noise or electromagnetic pollution. Furthermore, the fixed stations are very expensive, so there are few of them and their distribution throughout cities are often not sufficient to provide significant data on the pollution distribution and concentration. Periodical survey campaigns are necessary to check the pollution situation. The results of two LIFE projects are relevant in this respect: RESOLUTION (LIFE99 ENV/IT/00081 – concluded) and ARTEMIDE (LIFE00 ENV/IT/000005 still in progress).
Objectives:
The project would demonstrate:
- the existence of elevated concentrations of pollution in urban areas which are unable to be monitored by the common fixed monitoring stations and consequently require direct dynamic monitoring;
- the possibility for dynamic measurement with newly developed solid state sensors and;
- the possibility to superimpose all effects of pollution, establishing a global impact index with eventual correlation between the various measured concentrations.
To do this, the project would construct and test a mobile station for monitoring the state of the air pollution that can:
- collect data, simultaneously and in real time, about the atmospheric emissions, noise and electromagnetic pollution and;
- transmit them to a Control Centre. The data collected by the mobile measuring system would be elaborated in order to:
- produce thematic maps for atmospheric, acoustic and electromagnetic pollution covering the entire road urban network and;
- realise an informative system about the state of the environment.
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