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Bucharest air quality
management system build
entirely with FLOSS software
Vasile Crăciunescu
National Meteorological Administration - Bucharest, Romania
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Introduction
Air quality is a major issue for all the important cities in the world.
Bucharest is no exception. The air pollution in Bucharest, due to
traffic and industry, is abundant, especially in areas the human
population is concentrated. The fast rate of economic growth is
bringing more sources of air pollution.
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Bucharest air pollution sources
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1990... 2000
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1990... 2000... 2009
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Bucharest reality
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Air pollution effects...
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AIRAWARE Project
AIRAWARE project, funded in the EU LIFE framework, is aiming to
build a pilot air quality monitoring and forecasting system to ensure a
sustainable development of the rapidly expansive urban areas in
Bucharest, minimizing and preventing the air pollution impact on
human health.
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Project partners
The AIRAWARE system users list include the main local and national
authorities in the domain of air quality monitoring, forecasting, air
pollution abatement and mitigation of impacts, such as:
• National Meteorological Administration
• Regional Environmental Protection Agency of Bucharest
• Direction for Public Health of Bucharest
• Centre for Urban Planning of Bucharest
• Institute of Biology of the Romanian Academy
• Meteo-France (as strategic European partner)
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Components
The AIRAWARE system has a distributed architecture with dedicated
sub-systems for:
• air quality monitoring
• numerical modeling and forecast
• geospatial portal for data integration, visualization, query and
analysis
• slow-flow and rapid-flow feedback
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Components
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System data flow
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Behind the scene...
• Free and open source software
• Open standards
• Open data
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FLOSS software
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Open Standards (OGC/ISO)
• WMS (Web Map Service)
• WFS (Web Feature Service)
• WCS (Web Coverage Service)
• CWS (Catalogue Service)
• WMC (Web Map Context)
• GML (Geography Markup Language)
• GeoRSS
• GeoJSON
• KML (Keyhole Markup Language)
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AIRAWARE ONLINE GIS SYSTEM
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Graphical interface
The web interface was designed according with end-users needs. The
goal is to obtain a simple and friendly environment for air quality
spatial data management. The webmapping interface has the
following outline:
• The central map contains the cartographic representation of the
spatial data stored in the GIS database.
• The overview map facilitates the user orientation and provides a
mechanism for interactively re-centering the main map to a point
selected with a simple mouse click.
• The layers list is used to determine the way the map is composed
and displayed.
• The toolbar contains all the instruments needed for map navigation,
database search, feature selection, buffer creation. The functionality
of these tools is very similar with the one contained in every GIS
desktop application.
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Future work
• Finish the validation phase
• Go public
• Go on TV
• Send text alerts
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The end
Thank you for your attention
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