Using social media to detect outdoor air pollution and monitor air quality index (AQI): A geo-targeted spatiotemporal analysis framework with sina weibo (Chinese twitter)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Jiang, Wei ^a   Wang, Yandong ^a   Tsou, Ming Hsiang ^b   Fu, Xiaokang ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; CHINA; CITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FILTRATION; HUMAN; MOBILE APPLICATION; MONITORING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AIR POLLUTANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84949550174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141185     Document Type: Article

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