Earth and Environmental Sciences Poster Session
A Comparison of Healthy Urban Green Space and Localized Air Quality in Louisville Kentucky
Academic Level at Time of Presentation
Senior
Major
Earth and Environmental Science - GIS and Remote Sensing
List all Project Mentors & Advisor(s)
Dr. Robin Zhang - Dr. Haluk Cetin
Presentation Format
Poster Presentation
Abstract/Description
This study focuses on Louisville, Kentucky’s recent investments in public healthy Green Spaces, in attempts to combat increasingly poor air quality within its city limits. Based on earlier studies showing a direct connection between Urban Green Spaces and improved air quality; I compare the findings of Louisville’s Air Pollution Control District’s (APCD) monthly concentrations of various air pollutants in accordance with the EPA and National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) from its five stationary sampling sites with the overall change in Healthy Green Spaces within these site’s buffered sampling zones (7.5 km radius) using remotely sensed Landsat-8 Normalized Distribution Vegetation Index (NDVI) imagery. By comparing overall APCD air quality reports and healthy green space change during the months of June and July (peak vegetation reflectance period in Kentucky) from 2014 to 2021 a correlation between improved urban air quality and the amount of surrounding healthy green spaces emerges.
Location
Waterfield Gallery
Start Date
November 2021
End Date
November 2021
Fall Scholars Week 2021 Event
EES Poster Session
A Comparison of Healthy Urban Green Space and Localized Air Quality in Louisville Kentucky
Waterfield Gallery
This study focuses on Louisville, Kentucky’s recent investments in public healthy Green Spaces, in attempts to combat increasingly poor air quality within its city limits. Based on earlier studies showing a direct connection between Urban Green Spaces and improved air quality; I compare the findings of Louisville’s Air Pollution Control District’s (APCD) monthly concentrations of various air pollutants in accordance with the EPA and National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) from its five stationary sampling sites with the overall change in Healthy Green Spaces within these site’s buffered sampling zones (7.5 km radius) using remotely sensed Landsat-8 Normalized Distribution Vegetation Index (NDVI) imagery. By comparing overall APCD air quality reports and healthy green space change during the months of June and July (peak vegetation reflectance period in Kentucky) from 2014 to 2021 a correlation between improved urban air quality and the amount of surrounding healthy green spaces emerges.