";s:4:"text";s:5045:"Burn bans can occur year-round for wildfires. This kind of undertaking is just as big as StreetView if it were to cover the world, which is one of Air pollution and climate-changing emissions are causing widespread damage to human health, to our shared environment, and to our economies, Aclima CEO Davida Herzl wrote in a blog post.“In our neighborhoods, levels of pollutants can be five to eight times higher from one end of a block to another. This powerful new tool identifies and diagnoses pollution hotspots, informs action, and measures the effectiveness of policies and interventions over time. During that time, Aclima has designed, built, and validated the hardware, software, and methodologies to deliver accurate, precise, and scientifically rigorous data. The air quality is expected to be unhealthy across the region, with the Peninsula, Santa Clara Valley and Livermore Valley “Through collaboration between local government, industry and community leaders, we can protect one of the most precious resources for life on Earth: the air we breathe.”Aclima is mapping air quality on every block in the Bay Area. Aclima has 50 employees.Aclima has already begun mapping in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties, starting with the Richmond-San Pablo area, which will have access to maps of block-by-block air quality early this year. To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Plan your outdoor activities with our health recommendations to As wildfires burn throughout Northern California, the Bay Area is experiencing elevated levels of pollution. The company is also hiring across the board, including for engineering, design, data science, business, and community engagement roles. If outside make sure to wear a face covering.”Mayor London Breed said in a press conference: “Please continue to stay home as much as possible. This will inform lawmakers in making decisions that protect the health of Bay Area residents, he said.To support a wide range of efforts to reduce emissions and protect public health, the Air District has subscribed to Aclima Pro, a web-based application that makes the measurement data from Aclima’s environmental sensor network accessible for scientific analysis and decision support. In order to diagnose and act on these hyperlocal air quality issues, we need to better understand what’s happening in the air around us,” she wrote.Above: Aclima is hiring full-time drivers to map pollution.The Bay Area Air Quality Management District exists to assure that Bay Area residents breathe clean air, and it has partnered with Aclima to bring unprecedented visibility into air pollution and climate change emissions.Aclima said it will deliver an in-depth, comprehensive picture of hyperlocal air quality in all nine counties of the Bay Area — covering more than 5,000 square miles. Insights from Aclima are already helping support and assess the impact of the recently adopted West Oakland Community Action Plan, which defines a new model for community-centered emission reduction plans.“To protect both human and planetary health, the time has come to take deep and systemic climate action, to design innovative policies, and to invent entirely new ways to understand and improve our environment,” Herzl wrote. The most accurate, real-time global and local air quality index, weather & pollen data. After today’s launch in Santa Clara County, Aclima will expand into Marin, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma counties.This initiative broadens the reach and impact of previous efforts across California in West Oakland, San Francisco, and San Diego. This new layer of Aclima hyperlocal air quality data will complement regulatory stations by accurately measuring and analyzing air quality at block-by-block resolution, in the neighborhoods around and between these stations throughout the Bay Area.Over the next several years, the mobile sensing network will continuously map air pollutants and climate-changing emissions across the region, measuring and regularly refreshing baseline averages of block-by-block air quality.Aclima is systematically gathering multiple samples day and night, weekdays and weekends, to create a rich, dense dataset from which to generate a clear picture of persistent levels of pollution and emissions sources. Most recently, through Aclima’s work with West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project and the Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, the company generated and analyzed nearly 10 million data points on PM 2.5, ozone, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, and nitrogen dioxide levels. It is part of an effort to bring “hyper-local” air quality to the region, first by measuring local air quality data and then sharing that information publicly so action can be taken to reduce pollution.In mapping every block, Aclima is following in the footsteps of Google StreetView, where cars took pictures of every street by driving through every neighborhood.