This project was carried out for the course Large
Scale Data Engineering given at the VU Amsterdam.
This project visualises air pollution before and during COVID-19 in relation to measures taken by countries.
The data about the substances is retrieved from a TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) which is a
spectrometer that senses UV, VIS, NIR and SWIR to monitor NO2, SO2, CH4 and CO among other substances. The
instrument is mounted to a polar orbiting satellite that is managed in The Netherlands by SRON and KNMI. More
information can be found at the official website of TROPOMI.
The country codes and numbers that can be seen on the map represent the strictness of the "lockdown" countries
are in at that moment. The number ranges from 0 (no lockdown) to 100 (strict lockdown) and is provided by the
University of Oxford and Blavatnik School of Government. The latest dataset can be downloaded here.
To map the strictness number to the right country (coordinates) a dataset from Google was used.
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Contact:
k.doekemeijer@student.vu.nl
lj.de.geus@student.vu.nl
t.pelle@student.vu.nl
Published: 23-10-2020