PigeonBlog provides an alternative way to participate in environmental air pollution data gathering. The project equips urban homing pigeons with GPS enabled electronic air pollution sensing devices capable of sending real-time location based air pollution and image data to an online mapping/blogging environment. Pigeonblog is a social public experiment between human and non-human animals.
Watch for the feathered data-collectors overhead here in town for ISEA 2006 / ZeroOne San Jose; they're scheduled to be released daily from August 8-12. They'll be in Irvine for TechnoSpheres on August 18th and then in Newport Beach for UbiComp on September 18, 2006.