Geo-Information Technology for Air Quality Management. New Trends and Scientific Challenges
A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 9900
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geomatics; spatial multicritical analysis; spatial statistics; smart water network; site suitability analysis; (Agri-)PV site suitability mapping; solar cadaster; optimal sensor placement; GIS/DSS systems; urban air quality mapping
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Interests: geomatics; GIS; critical Infrastructures; natural hazards; risk assessment; remote sensing; web mapping; spatial analysis
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Interests: artificial olfaction & vision; smart cyber physical systems & IoT; intelligent sensing; machine learning with application to environmental (air quality) monitoring; energy production; aerospace industry; water management cycle; digital signal processing
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Interests: machine learning; multivariate sensor calibration; distributed chemical sensing; numerical methods; mathematical models
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite considerable progress in the past decades, ambient air pollution remains the main environmental cause of premature deaths due to elevated levels of fine particles, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone. Air pollution impacts are multiple and complex, significantly affecting human health.
To face this issue, especially at urban scale, in recent years, efforts have been addressed at designing and implementing a (citizen) science-based air quality monitoring and amelioration policy. This has been achieved through research targeting innovation: (i) in pervasive monitoring through high-density networks of new low-cost and small air quality sensors, mobile and fixed; (ii) in high resolution pollutant mapping, obtained through data fusion from heterogeneous sources (e.g., pervasive monitoring network including fixed monitoring stations and portable multisensory devices); and (iii) in DSS for air quality management, based on GIS technology and advanced atmospheric pollutant dispersion modeling along with data assimilation techniques. Further, mobile sensor devices linked to mobile apps have been developed to monitor personal exposure to urban air pollutants. The present Special Issue intends to outline the current state of the research on urban air quality management and infer advances to be achieved to better safeguard human health and the environment by air pollution. We invite authors to submit their original papers. Potential topics include, but are not limited to the following keywords.
Dr. Grazia FattorusoDr. Maurizio Pollino
Dr. Saverio De Vito
Dr. Elena Esposito
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- air pollution and its multiple impacts
- atmospheric pollutant dispersion modeling
- wind tunnel experiments: geostatistics for air quality mapping
- remote sensing for air quality monitoring
- sensing systems for pervasive air quality monitoring
- air quality data assimilation and sensor fusion
- GIS and WebGIS technologies for air quality management
- citizen science for measuring air pollution DSS for urban air quality management
- calibration and deployment of air pollution sensor networks
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