期刊
PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING
卷 16, 期 -, 页码 268-285出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2014.11.008
关键词
Mobile sensor network; Air pollution; Land-use regression; High-resolution pollution maps; Ultrafine particles
资金
- NanoTera.ch with Swiss Confederation financing under the projects OpenSense and OpenSense II
Up-to-date information on urban air pollution is of great importance for environmental protection agencies to assess air quality and provide advice to the general public in a timely manner. In particular, ultrafine particles (UFPs) are widely spread in urban environments and may have a severe impact on human health. However, the lack of knowledge about the spatio-temporal distribution of UFPs hampers profound evaluation of these effects. In this paper, we analyze one of the largest spatially resolved UFP data set publicly available today containing over 50 million measurements. We collected the measurements throughout more than two years using mobile sensor nodes installed on top of public transport vehicles in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Based on these data, we develop land-use regression models to create pollution maps with a high spatial resolution of 100 m x 100 m. We compare the accuracy of the derived models across various time scales and observe a rapid drop in accuracy for maps with sub-weekly temporal resolution. To address this problem, we propose a novel modeling approach that incorporates past measurements annotated with metadata into the modeling process. In this way, we achieve a 26% reduction in the root-mean-square error - a standard metric to evaluate the accuracy of air quality models - of pollution maps with semi-daily temporal resolution. We believe that our findings can help epidemiologists to better understand the adverse health effects related to UFPs and serve as a stepping stone towards detailed real-time pollution assessment. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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