Open AccessAir pollution Indexes Over Buchanan: Danger and Control
Author(s) -
Moses Emetere,
Emeka Emmanuel Okoro,
Sanni E. Samuel,
M. L. Akinyemi,
J. M. Emetere
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1299/1/012004
Subject(s) - aerosol , quartile , environmental science , radiometer , pollution , meteorology , air pollution , air quality index , standard deviation , atmosphere (unit) , dispersion (optics) , remote sensing , atmospheric sciences , statistics , geography , mathematics , geology , chemistry , physics , confidence interval , ecology , organic chemistry , optics , biology
In this paper, the air pollution state of Buchanan-Liberia was investigated. Fifteen years primary (aerosol optical depth) dataset was obtained from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR). The secondary datasets that was generated from the primary dataset is a new concept to air quality monitoring i.e. aerosol loading. The statistical analysis of the dataset was also presented. The standard deviation of the AOD is found to be less than 0.15 and maximum AOD value of 1.15. The average aerosol loading over Buchanan is 0.87. Statistically, the difference between the first and third quartile of the dataset indicates that there is considerable dispersion of aerosol content into the atmosphere in the months of June and December. The dataset gives a preliminary insight on how aerosol loading can be used extensively for preliminary ground exploration in Buchanan.