Instruction Guide and Macro Analysis Tool: Evaluating Air Sensors by Collocation with Federal Reference Monitors
Excel-based Macro Analysis Tool for Air Sensor Data
EPA’s Excel-based macro analysis tool was created to help community scientists and other non-experts compare data from air sensors with data from regulatory monitors and interpret their results. The tool allows users to input data from air sensors and regulatory monitors for comparison, even if the data sets don’t have matching time-date stamps or have different data reporting time intervals. This tool addresses one of the major hurdles in community-led air monitoring projects – working with and understanding the data.
Instruction Guide: How to Evaluate an Air Sensor by Collocation with Federal Reference Monitors
EPA has developed an instruction guide on conducting a successful collocation evaluation of air sensors with regulatory grade monitors. The instruction guide contains links to web-based supporting materials and introduces users to EPA’s Excel-based macro analysis tool for comparing and interpreting air sensor data.