GIS-Based Dissemination of Air Quality Information in APNEE
Gertraud Peinel, Thomas RoseFAW Ulm, Germany
Kostas Karatzas AUTH, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Greece
6th European Commission GI and GIS Workshop, The Spatial Information Society - Shaping the Future
EC-GIS 2000, Lyon
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Project APNEECo-ordinates
Air Pollution Network for Early warning and on-line information Exchange in EuropeIST-1999-11517
5th Framework Programme - IST Key Action 1: Systems and services for the citizen
— Environment
1/2000 - 12/2001 Co-ordinators
Financial - Administrative, Technical: FAW Ulm, Germany Scientific Co-ordinator: NILU: Norwegian Air Research Institute, Norway
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APNEE ConsortiumForschungsinstitut fürAnwendungsorientierteWissensverarbeitung -FAW Ulm - Germany
SICE - Spain
Aristotle UniversityThessaloniki - AUT -Greece
Ayuntamiento de Madrid- Ayto Madrid - Spain
Expertel Consulting -FTE - France
Seksjon for kontroll ogovervåking i Grenland –SFT/SKOG - Norway
Norwegian Institute forAir Research - NILU -Norway
Airmaraix - France
Universidad Politecnicade Madrid - UPM - Spain
Telefonica I&D - TID -Spain
NORGIT A.S. - NORGIT– Norway
City of Ulm, Germany
Hellenic Ministry for theEnvironment, PhysicalPlanning and PublicWorks, Greece
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APNEE will provide an interface to air pollution management systems and will
characterise dedicated information to affected groups of citizens. strives to develop a technical umbrella for the distribution and
customisation of existing air quality management systems. develop a harmonised classification schema for a uniform
categorisation of environmental data and further develop forecasting methods and will use operational versions of the most used air quality forecasting models.
serve EU-directives on information services for citizens about health threatening air pollution states.
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Technology and Functionalities
Technology/Interfaces Web GIS Street Panels Mobiles Voice Mail Email
Functionalities Air Pollution Visualisation Early Warning Forecasting Discussion Groups, Bulletin Boards....
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Before APNEE
P C M o d em
C o m p u te r C en treo f th e c ity
V ariab le m essag es tree t p an e ls
In te rn e t
M o d em M o d em
S ta ticV o ice se rv e r
T e leco m o p era to r
M o b ile o r f ix p h o n e
A ir Q ua litysurvey centre
A ir p o llu tio n W eb s ite
Fax
Ÿ N o G IS - W E B in te rfaceŸ lim ited in fo rm a tio n
co n ten t & in te rac tiv ity
T V & R ad io s ta tio n s ,n ew s p ap e r p u b lish e r
Fax
Fax
Ÿ lo w in te rac tiv ity
H u m anin te rv en tio n
fo r d a tap ro cess in g
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After APNEE
P C
M o b ile p h o n e
C o m p u te r C en treo f th e c ity
V ariab le m essag es tree t p an e ls
In te rn e t
M o d em
W eb over ppp m odemconnection or over cable
M o b ile p h o n e o p e ra to r
SM S & W AP
In te rac tiv eea rly w arn in g
in fo rm a tio n sys tem
In te rn e t
T e leco m o p era to r
M o b ile o r f ix p h o n e
M o d em
M o d em
In te rn e t
T V & R ad io s ta tio n s ,n ew s p ap e r p u b lish e r
M P3, M PEG andJPEG file
transm ission
R ed u ced H u m anin te rv en tio n
fo r d a ta p ro cess in g
Highly interactiveWEB GIS interface
Automatic alertmessage system
& in teractive dynam icvoice server
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Functions I
General Functions Access to additional information (e.g. historical data, European directives,
forecasting information)
Online air information from user Link list Administration APNEE feedback Subscribing to push services
Bulletin, Newsletter, Discussion group Daily bulletin for air quality on key spots urban areas Daily forecasting bulletin ATMO bulletin
Early Warning Alert message when level is up to given country specific and EC or local
authorities legislative threshold with advises adapted to the different target citizens
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Functions II
Online Info Pollutant values measured at a measurement station
— Actual pollutant values, air pollution index calculated for a measurement station
Interpolation in real time on hours values base - Dynamic changes (animation)— Level of different pollutants, level of air pollution index
Forecasting— Level of different pollutants, Level of air pollution index
Accuracy Concept for Measurements and Modelling— SMS messages will be sent to local experts to check systems, results and modelling
Thermal comfort, traffic conditions, medical advises, representation of multimedia files, e.g. images, video, audio
Pollutant transport assessment capability Mapping functionalities
— Display and selection of different information layers— Panning, Zooming— Display of longitude/latitude and zooming factor— Representation of measurement values in bar charts, pie charts and graphs— Representation of geographical themes related to air pollution
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Functions III
User Interaction (mainly WebGIS) Selection of predefined forecasting simulations on different pollutants Query functionalities, e.g. ”Find all stations where level of O3 > given
country specific threshold” Display of sensitive areas on mouse-over Launching popup-windows Presentation of new information layers, e.g. defining deviations for
trucks and cars Sensitive areas - smart maps
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APNEE Services
AccessType/Functions
EarlyWarning
ForecastingInformationexchange
Real time in-formationon air pollu-tion
By web Pull ServiceDisplay
Interaction Interaction Interaction
By streetpanels
Display Display - Display
By SMS Push Service PushService/Pull Service
- PushService/Pull Service
By WAP Pull Service Pull Service - Pull ServiceBy voicemail
Interaction Interaction - Interaction
By mail Push Service Pull Service Push Service(newsletter)
Push Service
Display:simply display of
information, frequently updates
Push Service:"push" content to interested persons who subscribe to such a service on timely or
event specific basis
Pull Service:interested persons request
information on demand, information will be returned on this request immediately
by sending information
Interaction:similar to pull service but direct user interaction for refinement of requests or parameterised requests
possible
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APNEE Draft Architecture
Local
Website: GIS,
graphs, tables, info and links
APNEE DB System
Mobile phone WAP
Mobile phone Voice
Electronic panels
Mobile phone SMS
Multi-media
Interface to Local Air Quality Management System
APNEE NetProvider Interface
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APNEE Components
DB
WebGIS
StreetPanel
Export
Watcher/Trigger
SMS
Cron
Phone
WAP/WML
CGI/WebServer/WAP Server
VoiceServer
GIS
Existing air quality information systems
Interfaces
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GIS-based Information Access
Simulation and forecasting access to region-specific data
— fossile usages for home heating
— traffic peaks
Classification regional alerts regions of comfort recommendations to pass-by regions
Dissemination available communication channels affected people
GIS as anchor point in the information infrastructure
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Contact
FAW Ulm, Germany Thomas Rose ([email protected]) Gertraud Peinel ([email protected])
NILU, Norway Trond Bøhler ([email protected])
WWW: http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de/apnee
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