ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION SOURCE MAPPING AND TRACKING OF POLLUTANTS BY USING AIR QUALITY MONITORING NETWORKS HAVING HIGH SPACE-TIME RESOLUTION

摘要

A method and corresponding apparatus for monitoring air quality while allowing the real tracking of both gaseous and powder pollutants and the identification of the sources of pollution, includes the use of a network of monitoring stations mutually arranged at a maximum distance between one and three kilometers in a straight line, wherein each station is positioned at a vertex of a plurality of adjacent triangles or meshes into which the geographic zone to be mapped is divided and wherein each monitoring station is configured to pre-process the air data quality together with the weather data and to send it with its GPS coordinates to a central collection and processing computer, wherein the data received by the single stations are classified, recorded and processed in real time by means of an algorithm configured to provide the positions of the pollution sources directly.