用稀疏监测与卫星数据,高效高精度估算全球氮氧化物浓度。
Dense Air Pollution Estimation from Sparse in-situ Measurements and Satellite Data
- 采用随机偏移采样策略,将地面数据均匀分布于大区域块。
- 单次推断生成网格化结果,MAE达4.98 μg/m³,比现有方法提升9.45%。
- 计算效率高,适合全球环境监测,适用于多种地理区域。
本文针对环境健康与政策制定中的关键问题——大气二氧化氮(NO₂)浓度估算,提出一种新型密集估计技术。现有基于卫星的污染估算方法通常在特定点位建模卫星与地面监测数据的关系,虽已实现全球尺度空气品质评估,但存在计算成本高的局限。为解决该问题,本研究引入一种均匀随机偏移采样策略,将地面真实数据像素位置均匀分散至更大图像块中。推理时,该方法可在单步内生成密集网格估计,显著降低大规模区域估算所需的计算资源。实验表明,该方法在保持高精度的同时,相较现有逐点方法实现9.45%的性能提升,达到4.98 μg/m³的平均绝对误差(MAE)。此外,该方法在多个地理区域均表现出良好的适应性与鲁棒性,展现出在全球环境评估中高效可行的应用前景。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper addresses the critical environmental challenge of estimating ambient Nitrogen Dioxide (NO$_2$) concentrations, a key issue in public health and environmental policy. Existing methods for satellite-based air pollution estimation model the relationship between satellite and in-situ measurements at select point locations. While these approaches have advanced our ability to provide air quality estimations on a global scale, they come with inherent limitations. The most notable limitation is the computational intensity required for generating comprehensive estimates over extensive areas. Motivated by these limitations, this study introduces a novel dense estimation technique. Our approach seeks to balance the accuracy of high-resolution estimates with the practicality of computational constraints, thereby enabling efficient and scalable global environmental assessment. By utilizing a uniformly random offset sampling strategy, our method disperses the ground truth data pixel location evenly across a larger patch. At inference, the dense estimation method can then generate a grid of estimates in a single step, significantly reducing the computational resources required to provide estimates for larger areas. Notably, our approach also surpasses the results of existing point-wise methods by a significant margin of $9.45\%$, achieving a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of $4.98\ μ\text{g}/\text{m}^3$. This demonstrates both high accuracy and computational efficiency, highlighting the applicability of our method for global environmental assessment. Furthermore, we showcase the method's adaptability and robustness by applying it to diverse geographic regions. Our method offers a viable solution to the computational challenges of large-scale environmental monitoring.
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