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Air pollution remains a major global issue that seriously impacts public health, environmental quality, and ultimately human health. To help monitor problem, we have created and constructed a low-cost, real-time, portable air quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 S M Minhazur Rahman , Md. Amrin Ibna Hasnath , Rifatul Islam , Ahmed Faizul Haque Dhrubo , Mohammad Abdul Qayum

Air pollution poses a serious threat to sustainable environmental conditions in the 21st century. Its importance in determining the health and living standards in urban settings is only expected to increase with time. Various factors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Mayukh Bhattacharyya , Sayan Nag , Udita Ghosh

Air pollution has altered the Earth radiation balance, disturbed the ecosystem and increased human morbidity and mortality. Accordingly, a full-coverage high-resolution air pollutant dataset with timely updates and historical long-term…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 Guannan Geng , Qingyang Xiao , Shigan Liu , Xiaodong Liu , Jing Cheng , Yixuan Zheng , Dan Tong , Bo Zheng , Yiran Peng , Xiaomeng Huang , Kebin He , Qiang Zhang

Air pollution stands as the fourth leading cause of death globally. While extensive research has been conducted in this domain, most approaches rely on large datasets when it comes to prediction. This limits their applicability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Mulomba Mukendi Christian , Hyebong Choi

Pollution in urban areas can have significant adverse effects on the health and well-being of citizens, with traffic-related air pollution being a major concern in many cities. Pollutants emitted by vehicles, such as nitrogen oxides, carbon…

This research endeavors to address the pervasive issue of light pollution through an interdisciplinary approach, leveraging data science and machine learning techniques. By analyzing extensive datasets and research findings, we aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Paras Varshney , Niral Desai , Uzair Ahmed

Urban air pollution has been linked to various human health considerations, including cardiopulmonary diseases. Communities who suffer from poor air quality often rely on experts to identify pollution sources due to the lack of accessible…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Yen-Chia Hsu , Jennifer Cross , Paul Dille , Michael Tasota , Beatrice Dias , Randy Sargent , Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang , Illah Nourbakhsh

The carbon footprint of algorithms must be measured and transparently reported so computer scientists can take an honest and active role in environmental sustainability. In this paper, we take analyses usually applied at the industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Kadan Lottick , Silvia Susai , Sorelle A. Friedler , Jonathan P. Wilson

Air pollution remains a leading global health risk, exacerbated by rapid industrialization and urbanization, contributing significantly to morbidity and mortality rates. In this paper, we introduce AirCast, a novel multi-variable air…

Through an aviation emissions estimation tool that is both publicly-accessible and comprehensive, researchers, planners, and community advocates can help shape a more sustainable and equitable U.S. air transportation system. To this end, we…

Applications · Statistics 2022-05-09 Andy Eskenazi , Landon Butler , Arnav Joshi , Megan Ryerson

This is a relevant problem because the design of most cities prioritizes the use of motorized vehicles, which has degraded air quality in recent years, having a negative effect on urban health. Modeling, predicting, and forecasting ambient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Jamal Toutouh

Air pollution is one of the leading causes of mortality globally, resulting in millions of deaths each year. Efficient monitoring is important to measure exposure and enforce legal limits. New low-cost sensors can be deployed in greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Sigrid Passano Hellan , Christopher G. Lucas , Nigel H. Goddard

The issue of sustainability is at the top of the political and societal agenda, being considered of extreme importance and urgency. Human individual action impacts the environment both locally (e.g., local air/water quality, noise…

Climate change is profoundly affecting nearly all aspects of life on earth, including human societies, economies and health. Various human activities are responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions, including data centres and other…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Loïc Lannelongue , Jason Grealey , Michael Inouye

We introduce a cost-efficient, and open-source measurement system for measuring and monitoring indoor air quality, aerosol concentration, dust contamination, and comfort-relevant quantities. The system allows to access these quantities…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-25 Konstantin Niehaus , Andreas Westhoff

Predictive systems, in particular machine learning algorithms, can take important, and sometimes legally binding, decisions about our everyday life. In most cases, however, these systems and decisions are neither regulated nor certified.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Kacper Sokol , Alexander Hepburn , Rafael Poyiadzi , Matthew Clifford , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Peter Flach

Estimation of the long-term health effects of air pollution is a challenging task, especially when modelling small-area disease incidence data in an ecological study design. The challenge comes from the unobserved underlying spatial…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-05-24 Duncan Lee , Alastair Rushworth , Sujit K. Sahu

Urbanization enables economic growth but also harms the environment through degradation. Traditional methods of detecting environmental issues have proven inefficient. Machine learning has emerged as a promising tool for tracking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Anirudh Mazumder , Sarthak Engala , Aditya Nallaparaju

It is of utmost importance to have a clear understanding of the status of air pollution and to provide forecasts and insights about the air quality to the general public and researchers in environmental studies. Previous studies of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-08 Soudeep Deb , Ruey S. Tsay

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