Deriving high-resolution urban air pollution maps using mobile sensor nodes

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 16, Issue PB, 2015, Pages 268-285

  Hasenfratz, David ^a   Saukh, Olga ^a   Walser, Christoph ^a   Hueglin, Christoph ^b   Fierz, Martin ^c   Arn, Tabita ^a   Beutel, Jan ^a   Thiele, Lothar ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; High resolution pollution maps; Land use regression; Mobile sensor network; Ultrafine particles

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; LAND USE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES;

HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND USE REGRESSION; LAND-USE REGRESSION MODELS; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; PUBLIC TRANSPORT VEHICLES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84922628547     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2014.11.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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