(20) Karin Tuxen-Bettman - Project Air View: Using Google Street View to help understand air quality
Channel: County of Los Angeles GIS Day
Date: 2020-12-09

ABOUT THIS TALK
According to the World Health Organization, 9 out of 10 people breathe unhealthy air, and 7 million people die prematurely each year due to air pollution. Research has shown air pollution causes heart disease, stroke, COPD, lung cancer, and acute respiratory infections in children. At the same time, air pollution and climate change are closely linked and share common solutions. Project Air View uses Street View, Geo’s mapping and mobility data, and AI to create hyperlocal maps of air quality, in order to raise awareness and enable action on climate and health.

ABOUT THIS SPEAKER
Karin Tuxen-Bettman leads the Google Earth Outreach Program and Project Air View at Google, which works to help nonprofit and public benefit organizations use Google's mapping tools to address our world’s most pressing problems. Karin has been with Google since early 2008, and has since worked on the Google Earth Outreach team. Her background includes over 20 years working in GIS and remote sensing technologies, which she applied to her PhD in environmental sciences, from the University of California, Berkeley. Several years ago, she founded and now leads Project Air View (g.co/earth/airquality), Google’s effort to map air quality using Google Street View vehicles equipped with air sensors, with the goal of making hyper-local air quality more accessible and useful.