Abstract
Abstract. Various studies have been carried out since 2005 under the leadership of Ministry of Environment and Urbanism of Turkey, in order to observe the quality of air in Turkey, to develop new policies and to develop a sustainable air quality management strategy. For this reason, a national air quality monitoring network has been developed providing air quality indices. By this network, the quality of the air has been continuously monitored and an important information system has been constructed in order to take precautions for preventing a dangerous situation. The biggest handicap in the network is the data access problem for instant and time series data acquisition and processing because of its proprietary structure. Currently, there is no service offered by the current air quality monitoring system for exchanging information with third party applications. Within the context of this work, a web service has been developed to enable location based querying of the current/past air quality data in Turkey. This web service is equipped with up-todate and widely preferred technologies. In other words, an architecture is chosen in which applications can easily integrate. In the second phase of the study, a web-based application was developed to test the developed web service and this testing application can perform location based acquisition of air-quality data. This makes it possible to easily carry out operations such as screening and examination of the area in the given time-frame which cannot be done with the national monitoring network.
Highlights
The procedures and principles regarding the management and monitoring of air quality in Turkey have been determined by the "Air Quality Assessment and Management Regulation (AQAAM)" which is fully compatible with the European Union (EU) environmental legislation
Since the validity and reliability of the obtained data is made by the monitoring network management, it is assumed that all air quality data is accurate and up-to-date
The web-based application of the National Air Quality (AQ) Monitoring Network was used for obtaining the data that is used in this research
Summary
The longest period of hunger of which the human life can continue is usually expressed in weeks. The quality of the air plays a crucial role for humans for being able to enjoy and perform life in the wild (Colls and Tiwarky, 2009).Air quality has proven to affect to the vital quality and continuity and on the person's mental state, motivation, and ability to perform (Boubel et al, 2013). Air pollution artefacts affect the quality of the air based on the impacts such as the installation of industrial facilities in the wrong place, the deterioration of the nature and the insufficient protection measures, improper construction, improper construction, increase of number of motorized vehicles for traffic (Colls and Tiwarky, 2009). Impact of air quality to life is very crucial and very risky situations can occur in bad air quality conditions. Scientists and politicians are constantly preparing new regulations and resolutions, tracking systems and perform situation analysis
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