Shelestov, A.; Yailymova, H.; Yailymov, B.; Kussul, N. Air Quality Estimation in Ukraine Using SDG 11.6.2 Indicator Assessment. Remote Sens.2021, 13, 4769.
Shelestov, A.; Yailymova, H.; Yailymov, B.; Kussul, N. Air Quality Estimation in Ukraine Using SDG 11.6.2 Indicator Assessment. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 4769.
Shelestov, A.; Yailymova, H.; Yailymov, B.; Kussul, N. Air Quality Estimation in Ukraine Using SDG 11.6.2 Indicator Assessment. Remote Sens.2021, 13, 4769.
Shelestov, A.; Yailymova, H.; Yailymov, B.; Kussul, N. Air Quality Estimation in Ukraine Using SDG 11.6.2 Indicator Assessment. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 4769.
Abstract
Ukraine is an associate member of the European Union and in the coming years it is expected that all the data and services already used by European Union countries will become available for Ukraine. An important program, which is the basis for building European monitoring services for Smart Cities, is the Copernicus program. The two most important services of this program are Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) and Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). CLMS provides important information on Land Use in Europe. In the context of Smart Cities, the most valuable one is the Urban Atlas service, which is related to local CLMS services and provides a detailed digital city plan in vector form, which is segmented into small functional areas classified by the CORIN nomenclature. The Urban Atlas is a geospatial layer with high-resolution, which is built for all European cities with a population of more than 100,000 that combines high-resolution sat-ellite data, city segmentation by blocks and functional areas, important city infrastructure, etc. This product is used as a basis for city planning and obtaining analytics on the most important indicators of city development including air quality monitoring. For Ukraine, such geospatial products are not provided under the Copernicus program. It is important to start work on its development and implementation as early as possible, so that when the first city atlas appears, Ukraine will be ready to work with it together with the European community. This requires preparing the basis for na-tional research and training national stakeholders and users to use this product. To make this happen it’s necessary to have national geospatial product, which can be used as an analogue of the city atlas. In this article authors analyzed the existing methods of air quality assessment and assessment of the SDG indicator 11.6.2 achieving for European cities, based on which the indicator 11.6.2 for Ukraine for 5 years was evaluated for the first time. The obtained results are analyzed and the values of indicator 11.6.2 for Ukraine are compared with European countries.
Keywords
air quality monitoring; PM2.5; sustainable development goals; SDG indicator 11.6.2
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Analysis
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