Remote Sensing Applications in Air Quality Monitoring in Urban Areas

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental pollution in densely populated cities is becoming increasingly serious, with severe air pollution being caused by various production facilities and vehicles. Many cities carry out air quality monitoring to address air pollution, but in situ point observation is the main approach. In situ point observation has limitations in terms of identifying spatiotemporal distribution according to the dispersion and movement of air pollutants. In recent years, remote sensing has been actively used for air quality monitoring to overcome this limitation. Satellite is a representative remote sensing technique, and LiDAR, DOAS, and FTIR are widely used to detect the concentration and spatial distribution of gaseous and particulate pollutants.

This Special Issue aims to discover new remote sensing technologies that can replace the existing in situ methods of air quality monitoring. Topics may cover aspects of remote sensing such as data accuracy, novel methodologies, and more comprehensive techniques. Hence, we encourage the submission of articles addressing novel application methods and convergence studies related to remote sensing technology to monitor the spatial and temporal concentration distribution of various air pollutants in urban areas.

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

• New methods for air quality monitoring in urban areas;
• The application of big data for air quality monitoring;
• Advances in the remote sensing of air quality monitoring;
• Convergence applications of remote sensing;
• The monitoring and assessment of urban air quality.

Dr. Youngmin Noh
Dr. Kwanchul Kim
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• air quality
• remote sensing
• urban
• integrated monitoring
• convergence application