Real Time view of Air-Pollution on Earth
Day by day the air pollution levels are increasing as there is increase in technology based knowledge which are utilizing many non-renewable energy resources. This creating a chaos world wide especially in countries like India and China. China is producing more amount of toxic gases in to the atmosphere and it alone contributes some 1.6 million premature deaths each year. Concerned about how such pollution was affecting his family, Beijing-based data scientist Yann Boquillod founded AirVisual Earth, an online air pollution map that uses data from satellites and more than 8000 monitoring stations to display global air pollution in real time. The Air Visual Earth interactive maps prevailing wind patterns and shows color-coded concentrations of PM 2.5—airborne particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter that can penetrate deep into the lungs. Users can zoom in, tilt, and spin the globe for better viewing. The air pollution visualization was crafted “so people really understand how bad it is,” says Boquillod, who hopes an informed citizenry will pressure governments and communities to clear the air. AirVisual also delivers 3-day air pollution forecasts for 6000 cities to smartphones, and it recently began selling low-cost monitors people can use to track indoor and outdoor air pollution. “People want to share that data,” Boquillod says.
If we observe the real time earth, even developing countries like India and Brazil also contributing more air pollution. The PM ranging from 30 microgram per cubic meters to some 100 micrograms per cubic meters in some areas. Though the government taking precautions to reduce pollution levels, it is ultimately failing at ground level like educating people and to propagate severe judicious laws to control more pollution producing industries.
(Courtesy by: Sciencemag.org)
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