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Meteobike - Mapping urban heat islands with bikes

"Meteobike" is our educational Raspberry Pi Zero Project at the University of Freiburg, Chair of Environmental Meteorology. In our course "Tools in Meteorology" (5th Term of our Minor in "Meteorology and Climatology"), we develop a system to measure, analyze and visualize the urban heat island effect. Within a short period (~2 hours), we measure with many systems simultaneously temperature and humidity transcects inside and outside the city and tag measurement locations with GPS. The system is battery operated and light, so it can be mounted on bikes. Communication with the Raspberry Pi Zero to our smartphone is enabled via wireless network.