Application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia
The use of remote sensing in detecting aerosol or air pollution is not widely applied in Malaysia. The large area of coverage provided by remote sensing satellite may well be the solution to the lack of spatial coverage by the local ground air quality monitoring stations. This article discusses the...
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| description | The use of remote sensing in detecting aerosol or air pollution is not widely applied in Malaysia. The large area of coverage provided by remote sensing satellite may well be the solution to the lack of spatial coverage by the local ground air quality monitoring stations. This article discusses the application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring of Malaysia. The remote sensing data is validated using ground truths either from local ground air monitoring stations or the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET). The correlation between remote sensing is relatively good with R from 0.5 to 0.9 depending on the satellite used. The correlation is much improved using the mixed effects algorithm applied on MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data. Accuracy of predicted air quality data by remote sensing is generally tested using the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) against the ground truths data. Besides the Geographic Information System (GIS) tools are used in manipulating the data from both remote sensing and ground stations so as to produce meaningful results such as spatio-temporal pattern mapping of air pollution. Overall the results showed that the application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia is very useful and can be improved further. |
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| spelling | upm-582892018-01-05T04:40:43Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/58289/ Application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia Salahuddin, Mohd Muzammil Ash'aari, Zulfa Hanan The use of remote sensing in detecting aerosol or air pollution is not widely applied in Malaysia. The large area of coverage provided by remote sensing satellite may well be the solution to the lack of spatial coverage by the local ground air quality monitoring stations. This article discusses the application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring of Malaysia. The remote sensing data is validated using ground truths either from local ground air monitoring stations or the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET). The correlation between remote sensing is relatively good with R from 0.5 to 0.9 depending on the satellite used. The correlation is much improved using the mixed effects algorithm applied on MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data. Accuracy of predicted air quality data by remote sensing is generally tested using the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) against the ground truths data. Besides the Geographic Information System (GIS) tools are used in manipulating the data from both remote sensing and ground stations so as to produce meaningful results such as spatio-temporal pattern mapping of air pollution. Overall the results showed that the application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia is very useful and can be improved further. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/58289/1/Application%20of%20remote%20sensing%20instruments%20in%20air%20quality%20monitoring%20in%20Malaysia.pdf Salahuddin, Mohd Muzammil and Ash'aari, Zulfa Hanan (2017) Application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia. Pertanika Journal of Scholarly Research Reviews, 3 (1). pp. 93-112. ISSN 2462-2028 http://pjsrr.upm.edu.my/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/PJSRR-VOL-31-93-112.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Salahuddin, Mohd Muzammil Ash'aari, Zulfa Hanan Application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia |
| title | Application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia |
| title_full | Application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia |
| title_short | Application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in Malaysia |
| title_sort | application of remote sensing instruments in air quality monitoring in malaysia |
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