Over time, Joy added more embedded sensors and expanded monitoring capabilities, onboard data storage, and diagnostics.
To create the added revenue needed for expanded monitoring, officials said, the city will increase the cost of transportation permits paid by the private haulers.
Mr. Bloomberg said the expanded monitoring network would cover the areas between 30th and 60th Streets, from the Hudson to the East River.
Iran and the UN's nuclear chief reached a deal today to allow expanded monitoring of the country's nuclear sites, including at a planned reactor.
A Harris Poll released last month found that 63percentt of Americans favored the monitoring of Internet discussions and chat rooms (32percentt were opposed), and 54 percent said they favored expanded monitoring of cellphones and e-mail.
However, in the past year, both the federal and city governments have expanded monitoring and treatment programs for recovery workers and others, based on the premise that there is some association between the dust and those respiratory ailments.
But environmental researchers have been clamoring for years for satellite researchers to expand monitoring to include areas thinned by logging and surface fires, rather than just areas that have been clear cut.
A third of the complaints cited government agencies, such as the police, as the offending party, and almost a quarter of the reports came from California.The increase is partly due to CAIR's expanded monitoring of such complaints.
To support that expanded monitoring, the G-20 officials agreed on a huge increase in the fund's resources; a historic shift in voting power toward fast-growing emerging markets and away from the richest nations; and a stronger mandate for the fund to monitor — and criticize, when necessary — the policies of its members.
