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Odor plume visualization in real-time is the Holy Grail of odor monitoring. Accurate characterization of an odor plume depends on continuous odor monitoring and representative dispersion modeling. In 1 minute and 6 simple steps, we will explain how an odor plume calculation is made.

For many years neuroscientists have worked in order to determine the basic dimension of odors, or, in other words, to find out in which basic categories we can divide odors into and how we can smell. Sometimes it is helpful to look around a bit, as the world sometimes provides us with wonderful ideas. We can look at perfumers, which are specialists from the point of view how we perceive odors. They use four basic categories for odors. They divide fragrances into the categories “woody”, “fresh”, “oriental”, and “floral”.