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ATMOSYS air quality management system

ATMOSYS is a suite  of air quality management software tools and web apps created specifically to support the implementation of air quality legislation and policies at a regional and urban scale.  It comprises of cost efficient user friendly tools for predicting air quality episodes , mapping air quality at a high spatial resolution and supporting decisions on where, when and how actions should be taken to improve air quality (planning).

ATMOSYS Planning

ATMOSYS Planning is a user friendly web based decision support tool, designed to facilitate the assessment of the impact of emission reduction scenarios on air quality on an urban scale at a high spatial resolution.  ATMOSYS Planning can be implemented in a regional or local administration:

  1. To support the implementation of air quality actions plans,
  2. As a standard tool to harmonise air quality impact assessments required for environmental permits.

ATMOSYS Planning's main characteristics:

  • Allows the evaluation of changes in road transport and industrial emissions.
  • The user does not require extensive modelling expertise to use the software.
  • The key inputs required is local scale emission data.
  • The software includes the latest regional meteo and background concentration data supplied by CAMS and ECMWF.
  • The software can be tailored for specific assessment processes e.g. environmental permit processes and/or Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)
  • Default data and emission mitigation options can be ‘predefined’ into the configuration.
  • Offers significant operational and administrative cost savings.

QUARK

QUARK (Quick Urban AiR quality using Kernels) is a modelling approach developed for the fast calculation of urban air quality assessments at a high spatial resolution.  Suitable for source apportionment studies and performing emission reduction scenarios on an EU scale at a high spatial resolution.

  • Allows the evaluation of road transport related sources.
  • Can be tailored for other source sector contributions.  
  • The methodology was recently refined within a service contract for the European Commission, where the aim was to come up with improved tools for EU-wide NO2 exposure assessment.

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Straat in Brussel

ATMO-Street: Mapping air quality to street level

VITO's ATMO-Street computer model calculates hourly air quality in Flanders, at street level. With this knowledge of local concentrations and exposure, we can better map the impact on health.

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OPAQ

Operational Prediction of Air Quality (OPAQ)

OPAQ provides a reliable and continuous view on air quality and allows citizens and policymakers to take immediate short term mitigation action.

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Brussels

Air Quality Assessment and Planning

VITO offers different air quality assessment and planning tools to model high resolution air quality maps down to street level.

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EISSA

EISSA Emission Modelling

EISSA is VITO's unique system for inventorying and mapping air emissions at regional or local scale. EISSA stands for Emission Inventory Support System – Air and is our product line based on the powerful EISS software.

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Mapping air quality at street level

Air quality can vary considerably in a city. Concentrations measured on busy roads and streets can be significantly higher than average concentrations in the city. VITO has built up extensive experience in generating high-quality air pollution maps that adequately reflect this spatial variation.

  • The underlying modelling technique (RIO-IFDM-OSPM) has been applied and validated in peer-reviewed publications.
  • The methodology takes into account the double-counting effects of local sources in the regional and urban background and addresses the complex O3-NOx chemistry.
  • The modelling chain is used in numerous cities across Europe, at the EU level, in China and India.
  • Source allocation of the different types of sources (regional background, traffic, local heating and industry) can be represented.

Current annual average NO2 concentrations for Flanders, generated by VITO, are available on the official website of the Flemish Environment Agency. Zoom in on the NO2-map.

NO2-concentraties in Gent

NO2-concentraties in Gent

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Feel free to contact Lisa. She will be happy to tell you more about ATMOSYS and our expertise in air quality management.

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