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Real-time air quality and forecasts

OPAQ is the result of our research for a user-friendly air quality mapping and prediction system enabling regions and cities to provide real-time air quality information and adequately warn their citizens of high pollution episodes. This allows citizens and policymakers to take appropriate immediate short term mitigation action. OPAQ provides a reliable and continuous view on air quality.

Key Applications

  • Air quality forecasting and generation of the Air Quality Index (AQI) for public communication. 

  • Mapping air pollution in real-time.

  • Data assimilation of low cost air quality sensor networks into OPAQ maps.

  • Reliable air quality data for inclusion in Smart City or IoT platforms.

  • Identification of air pollution hotspots and high pollution episodes.

Data Outputs

  • Daily air quality forecasts at hourly resolution for each monitoring station for the next 3 or 4 days ahead.

  • Daily forecasted air pollutant concentration maps.

  • Hourly, near real-time air pollutant concentration maps: PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, O3.

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