ISSS608 2016-17 T3 Assign JOSEF CARLO CUEVAS EXCONDE
ISSS608 Visual Analytics and Applications
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Overview
Objective
To bring insight to Mitch in understanding how the factories inside the park affect the bird population.
• To see the performance of the sensor placed within the park to measure chemical readings
• To look at any patterns on the chemical output based on sensor readings
• To figure out where the chemical are coming from based on the chemical reading from the sensors
Background
With the passage of the Mistford Pact of 2010, the town and the Preserve have set into place certain safeguards to help ensure the safety of the people, animals, and vegetation of our area. When Mistford began growing its manufacturing industry, both the town and the companies wished to ensure an environmentally sound and economically supportive partnership. With these aims in mind, air sampling sensors have been placed near the town and in the Preserve to monitor air quality. These sensors collect information on several substances of potential concern, including:
- Appluimonia
- An airborne odor is caused by a substance in the air that you can smell. Odors, or smells, can be either pleasant or unpleasant. In general, most substances that cause odors in the outdoor air are not at levels that can cause serious injury, long-term health effects, or death to humans or animals. However, odors may affect your quality of life and sense of well-being. Several odor-producing substances, including Appluimonia, are monitored under this program.
- Chlorodinine
- Corrosives are materials that can attack and chemically destroy exposed body tissues. Corrosives can also damage or even destroy metal. They begin to cause damage as soon as they touch the skin, eyes, respiratory tract, digestive tract, or the metal. They might be hazardous in other ways too, depending on the particular corrosive material. An example is the chemical Chlorodinine. It has been used as a disinfectant and sterilizing agent as well as other uses. It is harmful if inhaled or swallowed.
- Methylosmolene
- This is a trade name for a family of volatile organic solvents. After the publication of several studies documenting the toxic side effects of Methylosmolene in vertebrates, the chemical was strictly regulated in the manufacturing sector. Liquid forms of Methylosmolene are required by law to be chemically neutralized before disposal.
- AGOC-3A
- New environmental regulations, and consumer demand, have led to the development of low-VOC and zero-VOC solvents. Most manufacturers now use one or more low-VOC substances and Mistford’s plants have wholeheartedly signed on. These new solvents, including AGOC-3A, are less harmful to human and environmental health.
Factory
There are a few factories located in the Wildlife Preserve Area which contributes to the existence of the chemicals mentioned above in the park.
- Roadrunner Fitness Electronics
- Roadrunner produces personal fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, headlamps, GPS watches, and other sport-related consumer electronics. Roadrunner began as one of the region’s first fitness stores in 1962, with an eye toward outfitting the entire nation with appropriate outdoor gear. After an earthquake nearly destroyed their main warehouse in 1968, Roadrunner turned a bad situation into a glowing success with the first “slightly damaged goods” sale. After which they began to focus on manufacturing; though their “Earthshaking Bargains” business still sells dented, overstocked and refurbished items over the internet and from a small retail shop attached to their front office.
- Kasios Office Furniture
- Kasios Office Furniture manufactures metal and composite-wood office furniture including desks, tables, and chairs. Kasios wants to do with desk chairs what Starbucks did for coffee – making office furniture what people must have, instead of what they just need. “Office equipment doesn’t need to be ugly!” says founder Ken Kasios. “We have redesigned all office products to be cool, fun, and hip—even your basic stapler.” Kasios business model is focused on in-store merchandising highlighting the beauty and functionality of their “user-centered design”. They recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of a distribution and merchandising agreement with the national office supply chain store PaperKlips.
- Radiance ColourTek
- Radiance produces solvent based optically variable metallic flake paints. “Metallic paints with an untarnished reputation!” quips ColourTek’s Senior Vice President Arthur Donner. “Radiance ColourTek metallic paints are worth their weight in gold.” Offering a new generation of paints in the 1970s, Radiance out marketed all competitors for three decades until manufacturing process issues began to tarnish their reputation. “We were challenged,” said Donner. “Polishing up our pearlescent pigments caused us to lose luster, but now we have the lowest VOCs (volatile organic compounds) in the industry!”
- Indigo Sol Boards
- Indigo Sol produces skateboards and snowboards. Founder Billy Keys started off manufacturing wooden wine barrels for northwestern US wineries, but then navigated a course from decorative fiberglass wine barrels to making his first pair of fiberglass skis in 1971. Excellent product and sales decisions rocketed Keys Skis production to unexpected levels, until they were bought out by a large Denver, Colorado-based private investment group. Keys returned to making specialized snowboards in the 1980s, with a small company in Mistford called Indigo Sol. The company has seen modest growth in recent years.
Approach
Wind the given data of sensor reading and meteorological data the approach to understanding the relationship of the sensor would be:
- To look at the performance of the sensors by looking at the reading patterns against the wind strength and its direction, during this exercise we aim to see if the reading is consistent with to where the wind is blowing and if the readings is relative from sensors within their own proximity. We would also be able to see the reading per chemical on each sensor and pit it against the chemical readings on sensor beside it, in the aim of understanding if all sensors effectiveness in measuring chemical emission are the same of are some sensors tend to be sensitive to some of the chemicals
- To compute the the sensor emission on the factory coordinates to determine where each chemical originates to, this would require us to implement a Inverse Distance Weighting
References
Geospatial Introduction Reference
