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CSCE5520 Visibility Pollution Monitoring
CSCE5520 Visibility Pollution Monitoring
Mobile Phones
0 Turbidity (T)
0 Vertical optical thickness (tm)
0 Vertical optical thickness of the haze atmosphere (th)
Sky Luminance
0 t – Turbidity value
0 Intensity, I, computed from RGB values
0 I = 0.2126R + 0.7152G + 0.0722B
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Experiments
0 Static Camera – for test samples and easy analysis
0 Mobile Phone
0 Camera
0 Accelerometer
0 GPS
0 Magnetometer
0 HTC G1
Static Camera
0 South Mountain Web Camera - Phoenix
0 Altadena Weather Station – Altadena, San Gabriel Valley
0 USC Rooftop Camera Station – Los Angeles
0 HTC G1 with weather-proof box
0 Logs images every 15 minutes
Static Camera
0 South Mountain
Camera
overlooking
Phoenix
0 t = turbidity
0 Good, t=2
0 Fair, t=3
0 Poor, t=6
Clear vs. Hazy
Application
Application
Application
0 Collective Database (Server)
Improvements
0 Calculated turbidity value correlates to measured AQI
and Smog/Hazy days very well.