Urban air pollution monitoring using scanning Lidar

Abstract

We have developed a scanning Lidar system in this work to detect urban air pollution changes in real time and locate the sources of urban air pollution. We first proposed an algorithm to retrieve atmospheric extinction coefficients, which we used to create Lidar maps. Using Lidar map of the average extinction coefficients, we identified the locations of the local maximum values, and hence, the positions of the urban air pollution sources. Experimental results indicate that this method is effective for urban air pollution monitoring.