Chapter 1 Introduction to Air Pollution Assessment and Spatial Information Technology
1.1 The impact of air pollution
1.2 Air quality models
1.3 Remote Sensing
1.4 Objectives and organization of this book
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Air Quality Modeling
2.2 Application of GIS in Air Quality Modeling
2.3 Application of Satellite Remote Sensing in Air pollution Assessment
2.4 Application of Fuzzy Set Theory for Air Pollution Risk Assessment
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Methodology
3.1 Development of GIS-Based Multi-Source and Multi-Box Modeling Approach
3.2 Derivation of Ground-Level NO2 from OMI Analysis
3.3 Derivation of Ground-Level PM2.5 from MODIS
3.4 GIS-Based Fuzzy Aggregation Risk Assessment
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4 GMSMB Modeling Approach for Air Pollution Risk Assessment-A North American Case Study
4.1 Overview of the Study Area
4.2 Data Preparation
4.3 Results and Discussion
4.4 Model Validation and Discussion
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5 Fuzzy Aggregation Approach for Integrated Air Pollution Risk Assessment
5.1 Fuzzy Aggregation Integrated Air Pollution Risk Assessment
5.2 Result and Validation
5.3 Summary
Chapter 6 Satellite-Based Estimates of Ground-Level NO2 from OMI
6.1 Derivation of Ground-Level NO2 from OMI
6.2 The GMSMB Modeling Results
6.3 In-situ Surface Measurements
6.4 Comparison between Seasonal Mean OMI Tropospheric NO2 VCDs and In-situ Surface Measurements
6.5 OMI-Derived and Observed Seasonal Average Ground-Level NO2 Concentrations
6.6 GMSMB Modeling and OMI-Derived Ground-Level Yearly NO2 Concentrations
6.7 Discussion
6.8 Summary
Chapter 7 Satellite-Derived Concentration Distribution of Ground-Level PM2.5-A Case Study for Montreal, Canada
7.1 Overview of the Study Area
7.2 MODIS AOD Retrieval at 1-km Resolution
7.3 Estimating Ground-Level PM2.5 from 1 km1 km AOD
7.4 Results and Validation
7.5 Summary
Chapter 8 Ground-Level PM2.5 Investigation and Health Risk Assessment in the Extended East Asia
8.1Derivation of Ground-Level PM2.5 Concentration from Satellite-Based AOD
8.2 Regression Analysis
8.3 Results and Analysis
8.4 Health Impact Assessment
8.5 Regression Analysis-Beijing
8.6 Discussion
8.7 Summary
Chapter 9 Conclusions and Recommendations
9.1 Conclusions
9.2 Contributions
9.3 Recommendations for Future Work
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B GEOS-Chem model
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