Stuck in Traffic: Find the Road Segments With the Highest Pollution Levels

Workshop This Afternoon!!

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This has been a whirlwind frantic rush to pull together but just about everything is ready to go for this afternoon's GIS workshop. Should be a great one...

Dr. Melanie Sattler, Civil & Environmental Engineering professor, will lead the workshop with a 30 minute discussion of why air pollution is important in the D/FW Metroplex and discuss the various campus research efforts to study and model air quality.

I will then lead everyone though a hands-on GIS exercise that will include the following steps:

• Calculate total pounds of air emissions within 5 miles of everyone's home address (using spatial join)
• View distribution of emissions across region (using fishnet polygon)
• Join various measurement data to air monitoring stations (such as ozone and wind direction)
• Calculate estimation of ozone concentrations for entire region (using IDW)
• Calculate average ozone concentrations for highway road segments (using spatial join)

How can I expect to guide novice users through such procedures in a reasonable amount of time? Every procedure is automated using the ModelBuilder and VBA, and is accessible via a custom toolbar.


Data Sources Include:

• 2005 Toxic Release Inventory (EPA)
• Air Quality monitoring Stations & Data (TCEQ)
• Various Basemap Layers (NCTCOG)

If you're in the area, drop on by...