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    Monitoring the potential effect of particulate matter on cultural heritage. Contribution of an environmental monitoring system

    TitleMonitoring the potential effect of particulate matter on cultural heritage. Contribution of an environmental monitoring system
    Publication TypeCommunications in International Conferences
    Year of Publication2019
    AuthorsPereira P., Mendes B., and Silva L. T.
    Abstract

    Air pollution epidemiological studies typically only estimate individual exposure at residence locations. However, people spend a large amount of time away from their homes during the day. Integrating mobility and time-activity data may reduce errors and improve individual air pollution exposure estimation. Using air pollution concentration maps (PM10 and NO2) data and with collecting individual data from each person using surveys (origin/destination location, travel mode used and the reasons for daily movements) it is possible to estimate individual daily exposure to air pollution , integrating all this data in a GIS platform. The methodology described in this work includes all these items and it was adopted in a Portuguese medium-sized city called Guimarães. The results of this methodology showed that there are significant variations in the values of individual exposure to air pollution, compared to the methodology that only considers residence information of the person to calculate individual exposure to air pollution. Moreover, the sociodemographic data of each individual also play an important role in estimating exposure to individual air pollution.

    Conference NameICSC - International Conference on Smart Cities
    JournalProceedings of ICSC 2019 - International Conference on Smart Cities
    Pagination1-6
    Date Published2019-07-30
    PublisherICSC Seoul
    Conference LocationSeoul, Korea
    URLhttp://icsc2019.org/
    Keywordsair pollution concentration maps, Daily individual air pollution exposure, GIS., NO2, PM10
    RightsopenAccess
    Peer reviewedyes
    Statuspublished
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    The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.

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