Air Quality - Design of Monitoring Networks Advanced

Reading Guide

The implementation and maintenance of an air pollution monitoring program can be expensive and time consuming, especially when the aim is for long-term monitoring over a significant area. Consequently, it is essential that sites are optimized to provide the best representative cover while minimizing costs. This paper presents an approach in which representative air quality assessments can be undertaken for an urban area using the minimum number of measurement sites. A novel methodology is described that involves site selection to capture the maximum variance in measured pollutants, while minimizing spatiotemporal autocorrelation between the selected sites.

Material

• Nejadkoorki, F., K Nicholson, K. Hadad (2011). The design of long-term air quality monitoring networks in urban areas using a spatiotemporal approach. Environ Monit Assess. 172:215–223, DOI 10.1007/s10661-010-1328-4

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