Our Portfolio
- National Capital Air Quality Mapping Service
- Regional and Local Canadian Air Quality Monitoring Services regarding Industrial, Urban and Transportation Emissions
- Mapping of Air Quality Health Index in Ontario
- Decision Analysis Service for Urban Air Pollution Health Risk Assessments
- New Approaches to Air Quality Mapping in Ontario
- Development of iPhone Apps for local, real time Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) and UV Index (UVI) information dissemination
- Street Level Air Quality Forecasting
- Urban Population Health and Climate Change
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.
Development of iPhone Apps for local, real time Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) and UV Index (UVI) information dissemination
Funded by Natural Resources Canada/IRAP. Partnership with Media-x Inc.
Main objectives of this project:
- Development of methodology and algorithms for the calculation of the local (geospatial grid 10km x 10km), real time and forecasted AQHI as well as personalized UVI values.
- Development of a functional iPhone application for AQHI and UVI information dissemination for users within the province of Ontario.
Street Level Air Quality Forecasting
Contracted by the City of Ottawa.
Main objective of this project:
- The Street Level Air Quality module will provide essential information to decision makers dealing with urban air pollution issues in relation to road traffic. It will allow interactive display and analyses of hourly concentration levels on and along busy roads. It will become an essential element of a municipal air quality information system.
Urban Population Health and Climate Change
Contracted by Precarn Inc.
Main objectives of this project:
- Development and demonstration of an interactive GIS interface for simulation and quantitative assessment of climate change on urban population health. Focus will be on the impacts due to changes in air pollution dispersion
- Readiness and completeness of the product for its introduction to worldwide markets.
