A dynamic spatial filtering approach to mitigate underestimation bias in field calibrated low-cost sensor air pollution data
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Publication:6138622
DOI10.1214/23-AOAS1751arXiv2203.14775OpenAlexW4388085858MaRDI QIDQ6138622FDOQ6138622
Roger D. Peng, Drew R. Gentner, Claire Heffernan, Abhirup Datta, Kirsten Koehler
Publication date: 16 January 2024
Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Low-cost air pollution sensors, offering hyper-local characterization of pollutant concentrations, are becoming increasingly prevalent in environmental and public health research. However, low-cost air pollution data can be noisy, biased by environmental conditions, and usually need to be field-calibrated by collocating low-cost sensors with reference-grade instruments. We show, theoretically and empirically, that the common procedure of regression-based calibration using collocated data systematically underestimates high air pollution concentrations, which are critical to diagnose from a health perspective. Current calibration practices also often fail to utilize the spatial correlation in pollutant concentrations. We propose a novel spatial filtering approach to collocation-based calibration of low-cost networks that mitigates the underestimation issue by using an inverse regression. The inverse-regression also allows for incorporating spatial correlations by a second-stage model for the true pollutant concentrations using a conditional Gaussian Process. Our approach works with one or more collocated sites in the network and is dynamic, leveraging spatial correlation with the latest available reference data. Through extensive simulations, we demonstrate how the spatial filtering substantially improves estimation of pollutant concentrations, and measures peak concentrations with greater accuracy. We apply the methodology for calibration of a low-cost PM2.5 network in Baltimore, Maryland, and diagnose air pollution peaks that are missed by the regression-calibration.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14775
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