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Ali Mansourian

Ali Mansourian

Professor

Ali Mansourian

Proposing and investigating PCAMARS as a novel model for NO2 interpolation

Author

  • Mohsen Yousefzadeh
  • Mahdi Farnaghi
  • Petter Pilesjö
  • Ali Mansourian

Summary, in English

Effective measurement of exposure to air pollution, not least NO2, for epidemiological studies along with the need to better management and control of air pollution in urban areas ask for precise interpolation and determination of the concentration of pollutants in nonmonitored spots. A variety of approaches have been developed and used. This paper aims to propose, develop, and test a spatial predictive model based on multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) and principle component analysis (PCA) to determine the concentration of NO2 in Tehran, as a case study. To increase the accuracy of the model, spatial data (population, road network and point of interests such as petroleum stations and green spaces) and meteorological data (including temperature, pressure, wind speed and relative humidity) have also been used as independent variables, alongside air quality measurement data gathered by the monitoring stations. The outputs of the proposed model are evaluated against reference interpolation techniques including inverse distance weighting, thin plate splines, kriging, cokriging, and MARS3. Interpolation for 12 months showed better accuracies of the proposed model in comparison with the reference methods.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre)
  • Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)

Publishing year

2019-03

Language

English

Publication/Series

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volume

191

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environmental Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1573-2959