Visualizing patterns in the air quality in mexico city with self-organizing maps

  • Authors:

  • Antonio Neme;Leticia Hernández

  • Affiliations:

  • Adaptive Informatics Research Centre. Aalto University, Espoo, FIN and Complex systems group, Autonomous University of Mexico City, Mexico City, MEX;Complex systems group, Autonomous University of Mexico City, Mexico City, MEX

  • Venue:
  • WSOM'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Advances in self-organizing maps
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Air pollution in big cities is a major health problem. Pollutants in the air may have severe consequences in humans, creating conditions for several illness and also affect tissues and organs, and also affect other animals and crop productivity. From several years now, the air quality has been monitored by stations distributed over major cities, and the concentration of several pollutants is measured. From these data sets, and applying the data visualization capabilities of the self-organized map, we analyzed the air quality in Mexico City. We were able to detect some hidden patterns regarding the pollutant concentration, as well as to study the evolution of air quality from 2003 to 2010.