Inferring urban air quality based on social media

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 66, Issue , 2017, Pages 110-116

  Wang, Yan dong ^a,b   Fu, Xiao kang ^a   Jiang, Wei ^a   Wang, Teng ^a   Tsou, Ming Hsiang ^c   Ye, Xin yue ^d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wuhan University   (China)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Ensemble model; Feature extraction; Sina Weibo; Social media

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT; AIR QUALITY MONITORING STATIONS; ENSEMBLE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; SINA-WEIBO; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

EID: 85027549508     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2017.07.002     Document Type: Article

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