A region-based model for estimating urban air pollution

Arnaud Jutzeler*, Jason Jingshi Li, Boi Faltings

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    Abstract

    Air pollution has a direct impact to human health, and data-driven air quality models are useful for evaluating population exposure to air pollutants. In this paper, we propose a novel region-based Gaussian process model for estimating urban air pollution dispersion, and applied it to a large dataset of ultrafine particle (UFP) measurements collected from a network of sensors located on several trams in the city of Zurich. We show that compared to existing grid-based models, the region-based model produces better predictions across aggregates of all time scales. The new model is appropriate for many useful user applications such as exposure assessment and anomaly detection.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 26th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference and the 5th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
    PublisherAI Access Foundation
    Pages424-430
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Electronic)9781577356776
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    Event28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2014, 26th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2014 and the 5th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2014 - Quebec City, Canada
    Duration: 27 Jul 201431 Jul 2014

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    Volume1

    Conference

    Conference28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2014, 26th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2014 and the 5th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2014
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    CityQuebec City
    Period27/07/1431/07/14

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