Our Portfolio
National Capital Air Quality Mapping Service
Contracted by the City of Ottawa, funded by GeoConnections (NRCan)
Major objectives of this initiative:
- The development and implementation of an operational air quality mapping service is required to provide decision makers (public health authorities) relevant and timely information regarding the geospatial distribution of air pollutants in the National Capital Region. Development of such a standardized (Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure, CGDI) air quality mapping service is of considerable interest to both the Environmental and the Health Protection divisions of the City of Ottawa.
- A comprehensive approach to air quality monitoring includes ground level measurements, modeling and satellite remote sensing of air pollutant concentrations.
- The end products are daily air pollutant distribution maps that will be provided to users by means of CGDI standards and web services.
Regional and Local Canadian Air Quality Monitoring Services regarding Industrial, Urban and Transportation Emissions
Funded by the European Space Agency (ESA)
Major objectives of this initiative:
- Establishment and provision of a well specified service package for commercial operationalization of air quality remote sensing is the primary objective of the project.
- The service will enable Canadian governmental and private sector users to fully exploit atmospheric satellite remote sensing data, Aura/OMI satellite mission in particular, for air quality monitoring.
Mapping of Air Quality Health Index in Ontario
Contracted by University of Ottawa, funded by GeoConnections (NRCan)
Major objective of this initiative:
- Development of the capacity to generate satellite based daily near real time spatial representations of the new AQHI developed by Health Canada throughout the province of Ontario. These maps would be of sufficient spatial resolution to provide information down to local scales of approximately 1 km2. This level of spatial and temporal resolution will be of great value to the province and to municipalities in making air quality management decisions. This information will be accessible in a user friendly manner according to CDGI standards and protocols.
Decision Analysis Service for Urban Air Pollution Health Risk Assessments
Funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). Partnership with Risk Scientific International Inc.
In an innovative approach, the Earth Observation satellite based air pollution mapping and traffic emissions models will be integrated with health risk models. The resulting developed service will be a user friendly software application available to city planners and health policy decision makers. Such a software package would provide direct answers in terms of population health consequences (morbidity, mortality, hospitalisation, health costs) to allow appropriate and highly relevant comparisons of city planning options (such as traffic regulation, public transit and road construction) affecting the urban environmental conditions.
New Approaches to Air Quality Mapping in Ontario
Contracted by the University of Waterloo
Main objectives of this project:
- To develop an interface to combine the output from the WRF/Chem model to the existing A-MAPS Environmental geospatial mapping system.
- To create an Ontario-wide air quality information system capable of providing timely and accurate forecasts of air pollution levels.
