ispex: measure fine dust with your smartphone - daan swart
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iSPEX: measure fine dust with your smartphone!
Daan Swart, RIVM, Netherlands
Air-Policy-Science Meeting, Dublin, April 14, 3013
Photo: Tjitske Sluis
health
health
Breathing fine dust takes
on average six months of
your life expectancy.
Economic impact:
4-40 G€.
source: RIVM, lung fund
health
economy
economy
In 2010 canceled flights
due to volcanic ash clouds
cost airline companies
more than a billion euros.
source: IATA
economy
climate
climate
source: IPCC
Fine dust forms the
largest uncertainty in the
climate problem.
climate
Measure fine dust with
your smartphone!
new science communication
new measurement
philosophy
iSpex Movie
2500 2000
1000
free distribution: 4500
total: 10,000
iSPEX registration is open
16
iSPEX can be ordered at
www.longfonds.nl/ispex
at €2.50 a piece
EARLY APRIL: 6000+ SOLD
citizen science experiment
on a clear day
in May/June 2013
Results
direct feedback qualitative results in september quantitative results
iSPEX team
• NOVA – Netherlands Research School for Astronomy, University Leiden
• SRON – Netherlands Institute for Space Research
• KNMI – Royal Institute for Meteorology, Netherlands
• RIVM – National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands