A comparison of statistical and machine learning methods for creating national daily maps of ambient PM2. 5 concentration

VJ Berrocal, Y Guan, A Muyskens, H Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
A typical challenge in air pollution epidemiology is to perform detailed exposure assessment
for individuals for which health data are available. To address this problem, in the last few …

Comparison of Geostatistical Interpolation and Remote Sensing Techniques for Estimating Long-Term Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 Concentrations across the …

SJ Lee, ML Serre, A van Donkelaar… - Environmental …, 2012 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: A better understanding of the adverse health effects of chronic exposure to fine
particulate matter (PM2. 5) requires accurate estimates of PM2. 5 variation at fine spatial …

A data fusion approach for spatial analysis of speciated PM2.5 across time

CW Rundel, EM Schliep, AE Gelfand… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
PM2. 5 exposure is linked to a number of adverse health effects such as lung cancer and
cardiovascular disease. However, PM2. 5 is a complex mixture of different species whose …

Evaluation of predictive capabilities of ordinary geostatistical interpolation, hybrid interpolation, and machine learning methods for estimating PM2. 5 constituents over …

WJ Requia, BA Coull, P Koutrakis - Environmental research, 2019 - Elsevier
Numerous modeling approaches to estimate concentrations of PM 2.5 components have
been developed to derive better exposures for health studies, including geostatistical …

Exposure prediction approaches used in air pollution epidemiology studies: key findings and future recommendations

LK Baxter, KL Dionisio, J Burke… - Journal of exposure …, 2013 - nature.com
Many epidemiologic studies of the health effects of exposure to ambient air pollution use
measurements from central-site monitors as their exposure estimate. However …

Assessing PM2.5 Exposures with High Spatiotemporal Resolution across the Continental United States

Q Di, I Kloog, P Koutrakis, A Lyapustin… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
A number of models have been developed to estimate PM2. 5 exposure, including satellite-
based aerosol optical depth (AOD) models, land-use regression, or chemical transport …

A regionalized national universal kriging model using Partial Least Squares regression for estimating annual PM2. 5 concentrations in epidemiology

PD Sampson, M Richards, AA Szpiro, S Bergen… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - Elsevier
Many cohort studies in environmental epidemiology require accurate modeling and
prediction of fine scale spatial variation in ambient air quality across the US This modeling …

Improve ground-level PM2. 5 concentration mapping using a random forests-based geostatistical approach

Y Liu, G Cao, N Zhao, K Mulligan, X Ye - Environmental pollution, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurate measurements of ground-level PM 2.5 (particulate matter with aerodynamic
diameters equal to or less than 2.5 μm) concentrations are critically important to human and …

Prediction of daily mean and one-hour maximum PM2.5 concentrations and applications in Central Mexico using satellite-based machine-learning models

I Gutiérrez-Avila, KB Arfer, D Carrión, J Rush… - Journal of exposure …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Machine-learning algorithms are becoming popular techniques to predict
ambient air PM2. 5 concentrations at high spatial resolutions (1× 1 km) using satellite-based …

Consequences of kriging and land use regression for PM2. 5 predictions in epidemiologic analyses: insights into spatial variability using high-resolution satellite data

SE Alexeeff, J Schwartz, I Kloog… - Journal of exposure …, 2015 - nature.com
Many epidemiological studies use predicted air pollution exposures as surrogates for true
air pollution levels. These predicted exposures contain exposure measurement error, yet …