Remote Sensing Applications for Urban Air Quality Research: The Continuing Challenge
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 6130
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the main questions and challenges in the current research is how increased urbanization impacts air quality and how it will affect future environmental conditions. To answer this question, we need not only a deep knowledge and realistic consideration of the weather, climate and models, but also a set of continuous monitoring observations from the ground and space of vital environmental parameters. This knowledge is especially needed by policy- and decision-makers to moderate the risks and to regulate urban developments.
Remote-sensing assessments from satellite instruments have become increasingly important for assessing ground or tropospheric conditions. These methods have evolved rapidly over the past 10 years, with numerous applications relevant to environmental and public health. In this Special Issue we would like to provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of these methods and their applications for sensing ground-level conditions.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Air monitoring
- Green space assessment
- Traffic assessment
- Data sufficiency for air quality monitoring using wide range of measurements
- Sources of air pollution
- Passive and active sensing of air pollution
- Human exposure
- Urban heat island vs air pollution
Dr. Alexandra Chudnovsky
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Particulate Matter (PM)
- Aerosol Optical Depth
- Vegetation
- Satellite Imagery
- Air Pollution
- Exposure Estimates
- Urban Climate
