Discovering behavioral patterns among air pollutants: A data mining approach

Authors

  • Diana Arce Universidad del Azuay
  • Fernando Lima Universidad del Azuay
  • Marcos Patricio Orellana Cordero Universidad del Azuay
  • John Ortega Universidad del Azuay
  • Chester Sellers Universidad del Azuay
  • Patricia Ortega Universidad del Azuay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29019/enfoqueute.v9n4.411

Keywords:

air pollutant; knowledge; data mining; correlation;

Abstract

Air pollutants affect both human health and the environment. For this reason, environmental managers and urban planners focus their efforts in monitoring air pollution. In this context, complete information is required to support the decision-making process to improve the quality of life in urban zones. Hence, it is important to extract knowledge not only on concentration levels but associations between air pollutants. Based on the Cross-industry standard process for data mining, this paper presents an approach which leads to identify correlations and incidence between the most harmful pollutants in the Andean Region: Ozone, Carbon monoxide, Sulfur dioxide, Nitrogen dioxide and, Particulate material. This paper describes an experiment using a real dataset from a monitoring station in Cuenca, Ecuador located in the Andean region.  The results show that the proposed approach is effective to extract knowledge useful to support the evaluation of air quality in urban zones. In addition, this approach provides a starting point for future data mining applications for the analysis of air pollution in the context of the Andean region.

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2018-12-21

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Arce, D., Lima, F., Orellana Cordero, M. P., Ortega, J., Sellers, C., & Ortega, P. (2018). Discovering behavioral patterns among air pollutants: A data mining approach. Enfoque UTE, 9(4), pp. 168 – 179. https://doi.org/10.29019/enfoqueute.v9n4.411

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 4 (2018)

Section

Computer Science, ICTs

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