Calling upon all cycle hire operators! We’d like to know more about your venue to assess its value for the collection of Earth Observation data in the UK & Ireland …

Subject to funding and interest, Terra Byke will be using peddle cycles to collect air quality & atmospheric composition data. To make this service beneficial to cycle outlets, we have a few other services that you may be interested in. If so, please get in touch with me by email: admin@terrabyke.com

I’d like to say a BIG thank you to all those who have already completed my short survey. Your responses are invaluable in initiating the Terra Byke service.

Here are some of the benefits for cycle hire hubs …

• Helping to keep track of cyclists for theft and break-down cycle calls. Terra Byke will provide position data for each bicycle in the hire fleet, using an augmented GPS signal. Any cyclists in trouble, with unfixable punctures or in urgent need of service, will be quickly identified when they call base.

• Payment to maintain cycle fleet. If one of Terra Byke’s sensor housings becomes damaged in any way, we may instruct the hire hub to fix it themselves. If they choose to undertake this maintenance work, we will pay them ~£20 per hour. Why? To cut down on our call-out fees for an engineer.

• Public engagement and media exposure. If we choose your cycle hub to participate in our pilot study, we’d like to take it to the press! We’d also like to organise climate awareness campaigns and road-show events at your venue to promote our service. We will work with each hub in the marketing / advertising campaigns for these events to attract as many enthusiasts as possible.

• E-learning / Hands-on visualisations. As part of our service, we’d like to provide access to our data visualisations. We’d also like to provide cyclists with a certificate / hand-out, which informs them about their mileage and average speed etc. We’d fully fund these services in return for advertisements for our service.

• We’ll also be considering incentives for wet weather cycling – as Terra Byke is particularly keen on gathering atmospheric data under cloudy skies!

*Subject to approval and funding

In order to assess the quality of data from each cycle hire hub, I’d be grateful if you would take part in my short (10 question) survey,

by following this link to “Survey Monkey”

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Project Manager (Weather Logistics UK)

Terra Byke Service – UK & Ireland

Tel. +44(0)7949187732

admin@terrabyke.com

www.terrabyke.com/TerraByke/

Terra is the latin word for land, earth or ground. Our Terra Byke service draws analogues with the Terra satellite, a multi-national scientific research satellite designed by NASA …

Our Terra Byke service strives to undertake in-situ measurements and assimilate ground level atmospheric composition on hourly, seasonal and yearly timescales for a diverse range of rural environments. The Terra Byke sensor system is a brand new project in the pipe-line, under development by Weather Logistics UK. The network will provide Earth Observation (EO) data of rural atmosphere composition and of diverse ecosystems.

The objective of the Terra Byke ground-based Earth Observation (EO) system is to disseminate knowledge and to improve understanding of global change. In addition we hope to promote good health, carbon neutral transport, appreciation of our natural environment and delicate ecosystems, and to encourage the development of a diverse range of off-road cycling routes. We hope to work closely with the UK cycling networks, sponsors, the UK government DEFRA and EO data specialists to enhance the scientific understanding of several geochemical cycles.

The Terra Byke project offers a deeper public insight into the impact of humans on our natural environment. This is acheived by the use of e-learning material and visualisation of end-to-end data. Since the EO data that is gathered by the user (a recreational cyclist) is visualised directly at a base station, a sense of community and engagement and learning is aquired that is not possible using external data.

If you would like to get involved in the knowledge transfer either acting as an events coordinator for knowledge transfer into climate change or for ecological awareness please contact me. Our Terra Byke project requires several representatives that can disseminate information about our project and its applications in road-shows, science fairs and youth earth observation projects. Please contact me using this information form

Since our network is mobile, we have much smaller installation costs than traditional environmental monitoring stations. As a result, qualifying cycle hire stores who register for the opt-in system will be provided with a free set of devices to be installed and serviced on their cycle fleet. They will benefit from on-site learning portals or access to online subscriptions to our data visualization centre, in addition to opportunities for exciting projects / special on-site events with the public. We hope that these hands-on / interactive learning centres will be engaging and will enhance public understanding of climate change and atmospheric science. The four key areas of benefits of our Terra Byke project comprise:

• Climate Change Awareness Campaigns
• E-learning Tools for Education
• Validation with other Remotely Sensed Data
• Improved Scientific Understanding of Biogeochemical Cycles in Diverse Rural Ecosystems
• Promoting Health and Fitness

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