Using Social Media to Detect Outdoor Air Pollution and Monitor Air Quality Index (AQI): A Geo-Targeted Spatiotemporal Analysis Framework with Sina Weibo (Chinese Twitter)

Wei Jiang; Yandong Wang; Ming-Hsiang Tsou; Xiaokang Fu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141185

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Using Social Media to Detect Outdoor Air Pollution and Monitor Air Quality Index (AQI): A Geo-Targeted Spatiotemporal Analysis Framework with Sina Weibo (Chinese Twitter)

Wei Jiang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Jiang, Yandong Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Information Engineer in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Yandong Wang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Jiang, Yandong Wang

* E-mail: ydwang@whu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Information Engineer in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Ming-Hsiang Tsou ,

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Xiaokang Fu

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Information Engineer in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Using Social Media to Detect Outdoor Air Pollution and Monitor Air Quality Index (AQI): A Geo-Targeted Spatiotemporal Analysis Framework with Sina Weibo (Chinese Twitter)

Wei Jiang,
Yandong Wang,
Ming-Hsiang Tsou,
Xiaokang Fu

Published: October 27, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141185

About the Authors

Wei Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Jiang, Yandong Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Information Engineer in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yandong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Jiang, Yandong Wang

* E-mail: ydwang@whu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Information Engineer in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ming-Hsiang Tsou

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Xiaokang Fu

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Information Engineer in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW WJ MT. Performed the experiments: WJ XF. Analyzed the data: YW WJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJ MT XF. Wrote the paper: YW WJ MT.

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