Short-term prediction of air pollution in macau using support vector machines

  • Authors:
  • Chi-Man Vong;Weng-Fai Ip;Pak-kin Wong;Jing-yi Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macau;Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau;Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Macau, Macau;Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macau

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Control Science and Engineering - Special issue on Advanced Control in Micro-/Nanosystems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Forecasting of air pollution is a popular and important topic in recent years due to the health impact caused by air pollution. It is necessary to build an early warning system, which provides forecast and also alerts health alarm to local inhabitants by medical practitioners and the local government. Meteorological and pollutions data collected daily at monitoring stations of Macau can be used in this study to build a forecasting system. Support vector machines (SVMs), a novel type of machine learning technique based on statistical learning theory, can be used for regression and time series prediction. SVM is capable of good generalization while the performance of the SVM model is often hinged on the appropriate choice of the kernel.