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标题：Citizen Assisted Environmental Pollution Measurement in Developing Cities
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作者：Yusuf Sarwar Uddin ; Rezwana Rafiq
期刊名称：International Journal of Environmental Science and Development
印刷版ISSN：2010-0264
出版年度：2014
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：70-76
DOI：10.7763/IJESD.2014.V5.453
摘要：Measuring pollution in a city is vital for maintaining its living standard and healthy environment.Pollution in land, water, and air of a city is attributed to motorized vehicles, construction works, human and industrial waste and so on.Measuring pollution is, however, expensive in terms of human efforts, resources and costs.For cities in developing countries, such as Dhaka where the authors live, these challenges are severe because of lack of infrastructure and financial capacity.As a functional alternative, in this paper we propose citizen assisted pollution measurement techniques that leverage voluntary participation of city dwellers in collecting pollution-related data and evidence using their mobile phones and other suitable digital gadgets.To this end, we propose techniques for measuring three types of pollution: i) sound/noise pollution, ii) solid waste pollution, and iii) air/carbon emission pollution.We propose schematic system architecture for these measurements and also put discussions on relevant side issues, such as accuracy of these measurements, willingness and incentives for people participation.
关键词：Environmental pollution; measuring pollution; mobile phones; participatory sensing