Prediction of the level of air pollution during wildfires using machine learning classification methods

Khalid, Syed Mohammed and Hassan, Raini (2020) Prediction of the level of air pollution during wildfires using machine learning classification methods. International Journal on Perceptive and Cognitive Computing (IJPCC), 6 (2). pp. 115-123. E-ISSN 2462-229X

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Abstract

The recent increase of forest fires due to agricultural field burning in the South East Asian region has led to haze episodes in Malaysia which contributed to the increasing number of hospital visits for treatments related to respiratory diseases. With the increase of air pollution, it becomes a necessity to attempt at investigating and predicting the air pollution levels, which would in turn which would lead to proper strategies so untimely effects to human health can be kept at a minimum. The Air Pollutant Index (API) is used to identify and classify the ambient air quality status. However, the lack of ground air quality monitors which compute the API generally leads to unreliable warning information. Recent studies indicate that data retrieved from remote sensing satellites is now an emerging alternative for air quality prediction at the ground level. Hence, this research aims to use satellite-based data to predict the air quality of East Malaysian cities with the help of different Machine Learning classification algorithms. Aerosol optical data, meteorological data and fire data were collected from different satellite sources. Two algorithms were selected and implemented, and they are Random Forest and Gradient Boosting. When trained and validated, both algorithms performed reasonably well with an accuracy 0.89 and 0.85 respectively, for the city of Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	4964/86322
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Air Quality Monitoring Systems, Air Pollutant Index, Aerosol Optical Depth, Machine Learning Classification Algorithms, Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, Sustainable Development Goals
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General)
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science
Depositing User:	Dr. Raini Hassan
Date Deposited:	16 Dec 2020 15:49
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2021 03:28
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/86322

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