Incorporating Community Knowledge Into Analysis of Air Quality Monitoring Network Data.

ABSTRACT: We conducted a pilot study to explore methods of incorporating qualitative community knowledge into quantitative assessment of temporal and spatial air quality patterns in a neighborhood in Vancouver, British Columbia. We deployed a low-cost sensor network measuring NO, NO₂, and PM_2.5. We used a variety of sources of community knowledge to complement a timeseries analysis and spatial model: a survey by the residents' association; odor reports from a citizen science project; and data from a community mapping event. Community knowledge highlighted, among other sources, areas where cars and heavy-duty vehicles idle, locations of construction, and locations of wood stoves. When creating a "traditional" land use regression (LUR) using easily accessible, and publicly availa

SUBMITTER: Gardner-Frolick R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12268232 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature