OpenAQ
air quality cities environmental geospatial sustainability
Description
Global, aggregated physical air quality data from public data sources provided by government, research-grade and other sources. These awesome groups do the hard work of measuring these data and publicly sharing them, and our community makes them more universally-accessible to both humans and machines.
Update Frequency
Minutely
License
CC BY 4.0
Documentation
Managed By
See all datasets managed by OpenAQ.
Contact
Usage Examples
Tutorials
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Access OpenAQ data via a filterable SNS topic by OpenAQ
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Analyze Global Air Pollution Using Apache Spark & BigQuery by Kapil Sreedharan
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Build your own Air Quality Monitor with OpenAQ and EMR on EKS by Damon Cortesi
EMREKS -
Using Athena to access the whole archive by OpenAQ
Tools & Applications
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ARISense by Aerodyne Research, Inc.
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hackAIR by hackAir
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OpenAQ Aggregator by Kapil Sreedharan
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ropenaq R package by Maëlle Salmon
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Smokey: Air Quality Bot by Amrit Sharma
Publications
Resources on AWS
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- Description
- Minutely CSVs of global air quality fetched from sources all over the world
- Resource type
- S3 Bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::openaq-fetches- AWS Region
us-east-1- AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls s3://openaq-fetches/ --no-sign-request- Explore
- Browse Bucket
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- Description
- Rich SNS topic for new measurements, 1 notification per measurement, more details here
- Resource type
- SNS Topic
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:470049585876:OPENAQ_NEW_MEASUREMENT- AWS Region
us-east-1
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- Description
- SNS topic for new objects in the openaq-fetches bucket, roughly 6 objects per hour, more details here
- Resource type
- SNS Topic
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:470049585876:NewFetchObject- AWS Region
us-east-1
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- Description
- OpenAQ API
- Resource type
- CloudFront Distribution
- Hostname
api.openaq.org- AWS Region
us-east-1