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. 2017 Oct 28;17(11):2478. doi: 10.3390/s17112478

Table 1.

Online tools that may be useful to low-cost air quality research stakeholders.

Category Tool Description Website
Government EPA’s Air Sensor Toolbox Resources to support communities and citizens selecting and using low-cost sensors epa.gov/air-sensor-toolbox
AirNow Aggregated national data from regulatory grade monitoring stations and information on potential health impacts airnow.gov
EJSCREEN Environmental justice screening and mapping tool epa.gov/ejscreen
RETIGO EPA software for mapping collected air quality data epa.gov/retigo
C-FERST Community-focused exposure and risk screening tool epa.gov/c-ferst
AQ-SPEC Sensor evaluation program aqmd.gov/aq-spec
US EIA Energy Mapping System Mapping tool to explore energy use and development across the United States eia.gov/state/maps.php
CalEnviroscreen California specific environmental justice screening tool oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen
Non-Profit and Academic IVAN Monitoring System Community-based monitoring system for environmental concerns ivan-imperial.org/air
FrackTracker App for logging reports and observations around oil and gas activity fractracker.org
Institute for Health and Metrics Evaluation Resource for exploring health data and statistics healthdata.org
EDF Air Sensor Workgroup Data Standards Guidelines for sensor data formatting edf.org/health/data-standards-date-and-timestamp-guidelines
AQ-IQ Air Quality and Sensor Curriculum K-12 curriculum supporting the use of low-cost sensors by students teachengineering.org/curricularunits/view/cub_airquality_unit
OpenAQ Aggregated global data from regulatory grade monitoring stations openaq.org
SensorThingsAPI Open source API for connecting IoT sensing devices, data, and applications over the web opengeospatial.org/standards/sensorthings
Commercial Envirosuite Software for environmental management and planning envirosuite.com
Breezometer Commercial API for displaying air quality indicators breezometer.com