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 Research Projects | : | .. | Air quality is an issue that concerns the general public the most as it can cause a country’s economy to stagnant besides its well | |
.. | known threat to the environment and human health. In many developed and developing nation, air pollution has caused an estimated side effect of approximately two million premature deaths worldwide per year. In a country of maritime climate such as Malaysia, severe cases of air pollution are generally affected by our neighboring country as a result of forest fire and monsoon wind. This event usually occurred during Southwest Monsoon season (between May and September), which brings haze from Sumatra region to the western side of Peninsular Malaysia. Other local sources of air pollutions include vehicle emission, power generation, industrial emission, open burning and forest fires. The health damage in Malaysia resulted from air pollution had a record of approximate US$43 million and others related productivity losses approximate US$1.5 million in year 1997. In 2006, air pollution has caused Singapore US$50 million of estimated economic loss at since the start of the haze. In order to make use of the NASA satellite sensor for air quality monitoring in this region, a thorough study of the uncertainty is required. This is because countries situated under maritime climate are more dynamic in its atmospheric turbulence compare to continental region due to the influence of seasonal monsoon wind. |
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 Publication | : | .. |  1. | .. | Yap, X. Q., and Hashim, M. 2013: “A robust calibration approach for PM10 prediction from MODIS aerosol optical depth”, | |
.. | .. | Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 3517-3526, doi:10.5194/acp-13-3517-2013. | ||||
.. | Â 2. | .. | Hashim, M., El-Mahallawy, M.S., Reba, M.N.M., Abas, A.A., Ahmad, S., Yap, X.Q., Marghany, M. & Arshad, A.S. 2013, | |||
.. | .. | “Geometric and radiometric evaluation of Razaksat medium-sized aperture camera data”,International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 3947-3967. | ||||
.. | Â 3. | .. | Yap, X.Q., Hashim, M. & Marghany, M. 2011, “Retrieval of PM10 concentration from Moderate Resolution Imaging | |||
.. | .. | Spectroradiometer (MODIS) derived AOD in Peninsular Malaysia”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), IEEE International, Vancouver, 24–29July, ISSN:2153-6996, 4022–4025, doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050114. |