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Fine-scale spatiotemporal air pollution analysis using mobile monitors on Google Street View vehicles.

ABSTRACT: People are increasingly concerned with understanding their personal environment, including possible exposure to harmful air pollutants. In order to make informed decisions on their day-to-day activities, they are interested in real-time information on a localized scale. Publicly available, fine-scale, high-quality air pollution measurements acquired using mobile monitors represent a paradigm shift in measurement technologies. A methodological framework utilizing these increasingly fine-scale measurements to provide real-time air pollution maps and short-term air quality forecasts on a fine-resolution spatial scale could prove to be instrumental in increasing public awareness and understanding. The Google Street View study provides a unique source of data with spatial and temporal complexities, with the potential to provide information about commuter exposure and hot spots within city streets with high traffic. We develop a computationally efficient spatiotemporal model for these data and use the model to make short-term forecasts and high-resolution maps of current air pollution levels. We also show via an experiment that mobile networks can provide more nuanced information than an equally-sized fixed-location network. This modeling framework has important real-world implications in understanding citizens' personal environments, as data production and real-time availability continue to be driven by the ongoing development and improvement of mobile measurement technologies.

SUBMITTER: Guan Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7953849 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Fine-scale spatiotemporal air pollution analysis using mobile monitors on Google Street View vehicles.

Guan Yawen Y Johnson Margaret C MC Katzfuss Matthias M Mannshardt Elizabeth E Messier Kyle P KP Reich Brian J BJ Song Joon Jin JJ

Journal of the American Statistical Association 20191009 531

People are increasingly concerned with understanding their personal environment, including possible exposure to harmful air pollutants. In order to make informed decisions on their day-to-day activities, they are interested in real-time information on a localized scale. Publicly available, fine-scale, high-quality air pollution measurements acquired using mobile monitors represent a paradigm shift in measurement technologies. A methodological framework utilizing these increasingly fine-scale mea ...[more]

PMID: 33716356

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