The Project objectives and the problems it solves.
To build a pilot air quality monitoring and forecasting system enabling multi-impact surveillance, spatial-temporal integrated , and land-use municipal determinist planning, to ensure sustainable development of the rapidly expansive urban area;
To identify air pollution location of impacts on human health, using data and special functions, GIS geo-referenced regarding population morbidity;
To point out air pollution related environmental risks on bio-systems of urban area by linking ambient air contamination cadastre with a dedicated bio-indicator cadastre in OpenGIS environment.
To build a fast-flow (24 hours) information link, enabling feed-back of air quality status and forecast to the local enforcement authorities – Public Health Authority and Environmental Protection Agency - identifying sources of high emissions from diffuse (traffic or fugitive) and concentrated sources, in order to emission reduction. Measures indicated by the GIS decisional support (through multiple analysis of information) will be re-integrated in the forecasting numerical system in order to provide, in real-time the prevention solution for the risk situation;
To build a slow-flow (weekly) information link to a remotely accessed stochastic database enabling feed-back on air quality recorded parameters by applying feed-back information for mitigation strategies – land-use planning, traffic regulations, awareness of endangered species and environment.
By the expected results, the AIR AWARE system, will propose to reduce the chronical air pollution impact which affect Bucharest: the emission of pollution sources (including the diffuse sources) shall be identified, in order to apply decisional feed-back enforcement for emission reduction by the responsible authorities part of the system; the impact on human health and on bio-indicators shall warn the citizens, and the mitigation measures shall be implemented by the environmental authorities responsible with planning, these being also part of the system.