Lessons Learned and Best Practices: Air Sensor Collocation Shelters
Citation:
Kumar, M., K. Barkjohn, AND A. Clements. Lessons Learned and Best Practices: Air Sensor Collocation Shelters. Presented at Summary Slides on the Air Sensor Toolbox, Virtual, NC, April 12, 2024.
Impact/Purpose:
This project aims to provide collocation shelters, best practices, lessons learned, and collocation shelter design plans to enable the deployment air sensor collocation shelters across the US. These shelters can enable tribes, community groups, and others to gather higher quality data from air sensors by allowing air sensors to be more easily collocated alongside regulatory monitors. This will help with tribal and environmental justice projects where no monitors are currently located since air sensors can be collocated to build corrections and improve data quality and then deployed independently. This presentation provides best practices and lessons learned from the project.
Description:
Collocation of air quality sensors at existing regulatory air monitoring sites allows sensor data comparison against quality-assured reference data and is a cost-effective method for understanding the performance of lower-cost air sensors. In some cases, collocations can allow for location-specific correction factors to be developed to improve sensor accuracy. This presentation discusses the lessons learned and best practices from a project during which 18 collocation shelters, which provide weather shielding and security for sensors, were built and deployed at tribal, state, and local air monitoring locations across the U.S. to provide the infrastructure needed to enable additional collocation opportunities. The presentation goes through planning, building the shelter, collaborating and building relationships, and includes case studies. In addition, the plans are included as an appendix so that others can have these shelters constructed by local metal fabricators.
URLs/Downloads:
508 COMPLIANT -PRESENTATION_LESSONSLEARNED_COLLOCATIONSHELTER_AFTMANAGMENETREVIEW_032624.PPTXCOLLOCATION SHELTER DESIGN DOCUMENTS
