Urbmobi: a mobile measurement device for urban environmental monitoring
conference paper
Within the Urbmobi research project, a novel mobile measurement device is developed for urban areas. It provides temporally and spatially distributed environmental data and fulfills the need for monitoring at various places without the costs for a large number of fixed measurement stations. Urbmobi integrates state-of-the-art sensors for environmental variables embedded in a system that can operate on buses, trams or other vehicles. The prototype will focus on urban heat and the urban heat island effect by measuring air temperature, relative humidity and solar radiation. Air quality sensors will be introduced at a later stage. Integration of the data into real-time climate and air quality models will provide climate services and environmental data for a wide range of applications, for instance for agencies, administrations and consultancies that are engaged with public health issues and climate resilient urban planning. A special focus of Urbmobi is on the spatial variability of thermal comfort within cities. The combination of Urbmobi data with the atmospheric modeling schemes WRF and SWIFT provides opportunities to assess the thermal comfort situation in cities at a high resolution.
TNO Identifier
519667
Source title
3rd International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island, Venice, Italy, 13-15 October 2014
Collation
10 p.
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