Knowing the behavior of emissions of gases and odors in real time, is the first step to reducing time and performing an appropriate management against possible impacts on the environment. Addressing and effectively managing these events will benefit both companies and communities.

   After 12 months of development and testing, TSG Environmental announces the launch of Smart Plume®, the web-based visualization tool for the dispersion of pollutants and odors that, using the WRF weather forecast and surface information, as well as of topography, allow us to see the scope, form and concentration of the emissions of polluting material. Smart Plume® projects the boom of the gas, particulate or odor, to alert to risks of impact in the community and to know the productive area that is causing the greatest contribution in concentration.

   Chilean Ministry of the Environment has just launched a new website exclusively to inform about odour pollution: what the odours are, how are they measured, what laws and/or regulations exist, etc.

   Chile's Ministry of the Environment is one of the few ministries worldwide that has a specific department for odours, "Departamento de Ruido, Lumínica y Olores" (Noise, Light and Odours Department). This department has been fighting for years for the proper management of odours, and going a step further along that line, it has just launched a new website to inform Chileans (and other interested people) about what odours are, how they are measured, and what new regulations are going to be carried out in the country.