Geo-Information Technology for Air Quality Management. New Trends and Scientific Challenges

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 Fattoruso
Dr. Maurizio Pollino
Dr. Saverio De Vito
Dr. Elena Esposito
Guest Editor

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