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Urban air pollution has become a major environmental problem that threatens public health. It has become increasingly important to infer fine-grained urban air quality based on existing monitoring stations. One of the challenges is how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Huiqiang Zhong , Cunxiang Yin , Xiaohui Wu , Jinchang Luo , JiaWei He

Public transit is a critical component of urban mobility and equity, yet mobility and air-quality linkages are rarely operationalized in reproducible smart-city analytics workflows. This study develops a transparent, multi-source monitoring…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-06 Sean Elliott , Sohini Roy

Air pollution remains one of the most formidable environmental threats to human health globally, particularly in urban areas, contributing to nearly 7 million premature deaths annually. Megacities, defined as cities with populations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Harun Khan , Joseph Tso , Nathan Nguyen , Nivaan Kaushal , Ansh Malhotra , Nayel Rehman

Pollutant emissions from coal-burning power plants have been deemed to adversely impact ambient air quality and public health conditions. Despite the noticeable reduction in emissions and the improvement of air quality since the Clean Air…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-07 Chanmin Kim , Corwin M Zigler , Michael J Daniels , Christine Choirat , Jason A Roy

Air pollution is a worldwide public health threat that can cause or exacerbate many illnesses, including respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers. However, epidemiological studies and public health decision-making are…

Urban air pollution poses significant risks to public health, environmental sustainability, and policy planning. Effective air quality management requires predictive tools that can integrate diverse datasets and communicate complex spatial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Brij Bidhin Desai , Yukta Arvind Rajapur , Aswathi Mundayatt , Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair

Air pollution remains a critical threat to public health and environmental sustainability, yet conventional monitoring systems are often constrained by limited spatial coverage and accessibility. This paper proposes an AI-driven agent that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mohammad Saleh Vahdatpour , Maryam Eyvazi , Yanqing Zhang

Global ambient air pollution, a transboundary challenge, is typically addressed through interventions relying on data from spatially sparse and heterogeneously placed monitoring stations. These stations often encounter temporal data gaps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Liam J Berrisford , Hugo Barbosa , Ronaldo Menezes

People are increasingly concerned with understanding their personal environment, including possible exposure to harmful air pollutants. In order to make informed decisions on their day-to-day activities, they are interested in real-time…

In recent years, the world has become increasingly concerned with air pollution. Particularly in the global north, countries are implementing systems to monitor air pollution on a large scale to aid decision-making. Such efforts are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-20 Liam J Berrisford , Eraldo Ribeiro , Ronaldo Menezes

Air pollution is ranked as the second most serious risk for public health in India after malnutrition. The lack of spatially and temporally distributed air quality information prevents a scientific study on its impact on human health and on…

Ambient air pollution is a pervasive issue with wide-ranging effects on human health, ecosystem vitality, and economic structures. Utilizing data on ambient air pollution concentrations, researchers can perform comprehensive analyses to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-07 Liam J Berrisford , Ronaldo Menezes

Monitoring air pollution is of vital importance to the overall health of the population. Unfortunately, devices that can measure air quality can be expensive, and many cities in low and middle-income countries have to rely on a sparse…

Air quality has become one of the main issues in public health and urban planning management, due to the proven adverse effects of high pollutant concentrations. Considering the mitigation measures that cities all over the world are taking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Rodrigo de Medrano , Víctor de Buen Remiro , José L. Aznarte

The health effects of air pollution have been subject to intense study in recent decades. Exposure to pollutants such as airborne particulate matter and ozone has been associated with increases in morbidity and mortality, especially with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Nitish Nag , Vaibhav Pandey , Likhita Navali , Prateek Mohan , Ramesh Jain

The ever-accelerating process of globalization enables more than half the population to live in cities. Thus, the air quality in cities exerts critical influence on the health status of more and more urban residents. In this article, based…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Min Chen , Jun Yang , Long Hu , M. Shamim Hossain , Ghulam Muhammad

Air pollution is a major driver of climate change. Anthropogenic emissions from the burning of fossil fuels for transportation and power generation emit large amounts of problematic air pollutants, including Greenhouse Gases (GHGs). Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Linus Scheibenreif , Michael Mommert , Damian Borth

Air pollution in cities, especially NO\textsubscript{2}, is linked to numerous health problems, ranging from mortality to mental health challenges and attention deficits in children. While cities globally have initiated policies to curtail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Mohamed R. Ibrahim , Terry Lyons

Data used to assess acute health effects from air pollution typically have good temporal but poor spatial resolution or the opposite. A modified longitudinal model was developed that sought to improve resolution in both domains by bringing…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-02 Lixun Zhang , Yongtao Guan , Brian P. Leaderer , Theodore R. Holford

Indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) can rapidly accumulate to form invisible pollution hotspots, posing significant health risks due to its odorless and colorless nature. Despite growing interest in wearable or stationary sensors for pollutant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Prasenjit Karmakar , Manjeet Yadav , Swayanshu Rout , Swadhin Pradhan , Sandip Chakraborty