Mapping air quality: An assessment of the pollutants dispersion in inhabited areas to predict and manage environmental risks

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1078-1088

  Nicolescu, Carmen Leane ^a   Gorghiu, Gabriel ^a   Dunea, Daniel ^a   Buruleanu, Lavinia ^a   Moise, Virgil ^a  

^a VALAHIA UNIVERSITY OF TARGOVISTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environmental risk; MEMDUR project; Monitoring system; Pollutant dispersion

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ORTHOPHOTO; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION MONITORING;

DIMBOVITA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 58149175859     PISSN: 17905079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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