Stories of Scientific Impacts Enabled by Open Access to Global Air Quality Data
Abstract
Air pollution, responsible for more deaths each year than HIV/AIDS and malaria, combined, is a global public health crisis. Yet many scientific questions, including those directly relevant for policy, remain unanswered when it comes to the impact of air pollution on health in highly polluted environments. Often, specific solutions to improving air quality are local and sustained through public engagement, policy, and monitoring. Both the overarching science of air quality and public health, as well as local solutions, rely on open access to reliable, timely air quality data.
Over the past three years, the OpenAQ community has opened up more than a quarter of a billion existing disparate air quality data in 67 countries through an open source platform (openaq.org) so that communities around the world can use it to advance science, public engagement, and policy. In this session, we will share stories of scientific advances made possible by using open air quality data. The figure below shows where in the world real-time air quality data has been made available through our open-source platform (shaded portion):- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMIN42A..01B
- Keywords:
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- 1926 Geospatial;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1936 Interoperability;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1950 Metadata: Quality;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1982 Standards;
- INFORMATICS;
- 1926 Geospatial;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1936 Interoperability;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1950 Metadata: Quality;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1982 Standards;
- INFORMATICS