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Mapping Urban Heat Islands with a Low-Cost Sensor Network Built by Secondary Students

  • R. Osei

    Accra Academy · High school

  • M. Chen

    Independent · High school

  • S. Villanueva

    Arizona State University · Undergraduate

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Abstract

Forty students deployed 96 open-hardware temperature sensors across a mid-sized city over one summer. We describe the calibration protocol, quantify drift against a reference station, and show the network resolves intra-city temperature differences of up to 4.2 degrees Celsius. Total hardware cost was under 900 USD.

urban heat islandopen hardwarecitizen science

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