Air Project
The LPS Air Quality Station is a small, cheap and portable platform based on a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino computer and equipped with a set of sensors that measure air gaseous pollutants, particles and other properties of the ambient air. The measurements are sent to a web server at ESA and visualised in a web map in real time (https://lps19airquality.esa.int/map/) where they can be compared to satellite-based measurements from Sentinel-5P.
In particular, the station measures particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), ammonia (NH3 ), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ambient temperature and humidity and disposes of a GPS receiver for localisation. This project offers school students the unique opportunity to be part of an European Space Agency (ESA) project and learn about air pollution, the composition of our atmosphere and Earth Observation from space in an interactive and fun way. It brings together Atmospheric Science, Remote Sensing, Computer and Citizen Science for an exciting learning experience.
This is meant to be an educational project and the sensors are not calibrated to scientific standards. Therefore the measurements obtained within this project should only be used for educational purposes and have no valid scientific or formal meaning.
