Design and prototype of an interoperable online air quality information system

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 79, Issue , 2016, Pages 354-366

  Wiemann, Stefan ^a   Brauner, Johannes ^a   Karrasch, Pierre ^a   Henzen, Daniel ^a   Bernard, Lars ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air quality; Sensor observations; Spatial data infrastructure

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH RISKS; INTEROPERABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR QUALITY MODELING; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS; QUALITY INFORMATION; QUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM; REAL TIME MONITORING; SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE;

SEARCH ENGINES;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DESIGN METHOD; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; INFORMATION SYSTEM; SENSOR; SPATIAL DATA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84960251200     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.10.028     Document Type: Article

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