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Title:
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GENERIC FRAMEWORK FOR MONITORING AIR POLLUTIONS IN SOHAR INDUSTRIAL REGION |
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Author(s):
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Nebras N. Hasson, Feras N. Hasoon, Mustafa Hasan, Dinesh Kumar Saini |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-36-6 |
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Editors:
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Gunilla Bradley, Diane Whitehouse and Gurmit Singh |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Environmental Modeling, Air Pollution, Environmental Monitoring, Geoinformatics, Information Sharing. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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201 |
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Last Page:
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205 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Sohar Industrial region in the Sultanate of Oman has been developing rapidly in the past few years. It includes different types of downstream, petrochemical, aluminum, power, and steel industries. This development has already had a significant impact on the national income as well as on the regions development. However, such industries can also have negative impacts on the environment, resulting from the emission of pollution from the factories. More effective environmental pollution control and management are needed, due to the increasing environmental impacts from a range of activities and the growing demands for a better living environment. Air pollution is a serious environmental issue that poses adverse impacts on the health of people and on the natural environment in most metropolitan areas. In this paper, we propose a geoinformatics-augmented framework of environmental modeling and information sharing for supporting effective air pollution control and management. This framework is outlined in terms of its key components and processes including: 1) an integrated, adaptive network of sensors for environmental monitoring; 2) a set of distributed, interoperable databases for data management; 3) a set of intelligent, robust algorithms and models for environmental modeling; 4) a set of flexible, efficient user interfaces for data access and information sharing; and 5) a reliable, high capacity, high performance computing and communication infrastructure for integrating and supporting other framework components and processes. |
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