Sensor Applications for Measuring Air Quality in Remote and Developing Locations

Dear Colleagues,

Increasing public awareness of the severity of health risks posed by exposure to air pollution has led to a greater need to measure air quality. Interest in understanding air pollution has particularly increased for locations that have not historically been measured due to remoteness or lack of air monitoring infrastructure. In response to this increased awareness and the need for air quality data, new technologies have been developed to measure air pollution concentrations to broaden the types and locations where measurements can be collected.

This Special Issue focuses on state-of-the-art research in developing sensor technologies to measure air pollution and applying these techniques in locations with historically little or no data collected. Contributions are invited for the development and applications of approaches ranging from portable air sensors to using satellite measurement techniques. Contributions are also encouraged on advances in analyzing these large datasets, data fusion methods, and communicating results for improved decision-making on environmental and public health issues. The submissions can cover, but need not be limited to, the following topics:

• Development and application of portable air sensors;
• Advances in mobile monitoring platforms and data analysis;
• Advances and applications of satellite and other remote sensing techniques for air pollution measurements;
• Evaluations and interpretation of the performance and quality of sensor measurements;
• Data analysis and modeling of air quality data collected by advanced sensor devices;
• Applications of advanced sensor techniques and data fusion approaches, particularly in locations with historically little to no air quality data available;
• Analysis of the use of sensor data for decision-making and policy advancements;
• Application of citizen science and crowdsourcing approaches using sensors for locations with limited or no historical monitoring data;
• Any other related topic.

Dr. Richard Baldauf
Dr. Rachelle Duvall
Guest Editors

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• air quality
• air sensors
• remote sensing
• satellite measurements
• mobile monitoring
• exposure assessment
• environmental policy