Remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants originating from 1997 forest fire in Southeast Asia

The massive forest fire in Indonesia in 1997 affected the whole Asian region by transporting large quantity of smoke plume. Malaysia bore the brunt due to its proximity, wind direction and weather conditions. Therefore this study aims at using coarse spatial but high temporal resolution Advanced Ver...

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Main Authors: Hashim, M., Kanniah, K. D., Asmala, A., Rasib, A. W.
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Language:English
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author Hashim, M.
Kanniah, K. D.
Asmala, A.
Rasib, A. W.
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Kanniah, K. D.
Asmala, A.
Rasib, A. W.
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description The massive forest fire in Indonesia in 1997 affected the whole Asian region by transporting large quantity of smoke plume. Malaysia bore the brunt due to its proximity, wind direction and weather conditions. Therefore this study aims at using coarse spatial but high temporal resolution Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data of NOAA-14 satellite to detect and subsequently map the five primary fire pollutants i.e. carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nirogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3) and particulate matter (less than 10 micron) (PM10) in Peninsular Malaysia. Regression analysis was used to establish a statistical relationship between above mentioned concentrations recorded at 5 stations around Peninsular Malaysia and reflectance values from AVHRR data. Among the 5 constituents, PM10 showed a moderate correlation (R2) of 0.51 whilst, other constituents revealed poor correlation with correlation of less than 0.5. This model, was then applied to all the pixels in the image covering the whole Peninsular Malaysia. The obtained values are in Air Pollution Index/API values.
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spelling utem-3442021-09-29T16:16:43Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/344/ Remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants originating from 1997 forest fire in Southeast Asia Hashim, M. Kanniah, K. D. Asmala, A. Rasib, A. W. QC Physics The massive forest fire in Indonesia in 1997 affected the whole Asian region by transporting large quantity of smoke plume. Malaysia bore the brunt due to its proximity, wind direction and weather conditions. Therefore this study aims at using coarse spatial but high temporal resolution Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data of NOAA-14 satellite to detect and subsequently map the five primary fire pollutants i.e. carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nirogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3) and particulate matter (less than 10 micron) (PM10) in Peninsular Malaysia. Regression analysis was used to establish a statistical relationship between above mentioned concentrations recorded at 5 stations around Peninsular Malaysia and reflectance values from AVHRR data. Among the 5 constituents, PM10 showed a moderate correlation (R2) of 0.51 whilst, other constituents revealed poor correlation with correlation of less than 0.5. This model, was then applied to all the pixels in the image covering the whole Peninsular Malaysia. The obtained values are in Air Pollution Index/API values. ARSRIN 2004-06 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/344/1/geomatics2004.pdf Hashim, M. and Kanniah, K. D. and Asmala, A. and Rasib, A. W. (2004) Remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants originating from 1997 forest fire in Southeast Asia. Asian Journal of Geoinformatics, 4 (4). pp. 57-67. ISSN 1513-6728
spellingShingle QC Physics
Hashim, M.
Kanniah, K. D.
Asmala, A.
Rasib, A. W.
Remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants originating from 1997 forest fire in Southeast Asia
title Remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants originating from 1997 forest fire in Southeast Asia
title_full Remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants originating from 1997 forest fire in Southeast Asia
title_fullStr Remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants originating from 1997 forest fire in Southeast Asia
title_full_unstemmed Remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants originating from 1997 forest fire in Southeast Asia
title_short Remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants originating from 1997 forest fire in Southeast Asia
title_sort remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants originating from 1997 forest fire in southeast asia
topic QC Physics
url http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/344/
http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/344/1/geomatics2004.pdf