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Air Quality Assessment by Neural Networks

Air Quality Assessment by Neural Networks
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Author(s): Petr Hájek (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic)and Vladimír Olej (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 27
Source title: Environmental Modeling for Sustainable Regional Development: System Approaches and Advanced Methods
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vladimír Olej (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic), Ilona Obršálová (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic)and Jirí Krupka (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-156-0.ch005

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Abstract

The chapter presents an overview of current methods for air quality assessment, i.e. air stress indices and air quality indices. Traditional air quality assessment is realized using air quality indices which are determined as mean values of selected air pollutants. Thus, air quality assessment depends on strictly given limits without taking into account specific local conditions and synergic relations between air pollutants and other meteorological factors. The stated limitations can be eliminated, e.g. using systems based on neural networks and fuzzy logic. Therefore, the chapter presents a design of a model for air quality assessment based on a combination of Kohonen’s self-organizing feature maps and fuzzy logic neural networks. The model makes it possible to analyze the structure of data, to find localities with similar air quality, and to interpret the classification results by means of fuzzy logic. Due to its generalization ability, it is also possible to classify unknown localities into classes assessing their air quality.

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