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An intelligent algorithm to recommend percent vegetation cover (ARVC) for PM2.5 reduction

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Nowadays, increasing particulate matter (PM) remains a challenge for environmental and humanity health and increases death statistics. Case studies and experimental observations demonstrated that vegetation coverage and type of plants affect PM and air quality. Condensation of PM2.5 has an impressive effect on deteriorating air quality. Increasing vegetation coverage has a significant impact on reducing PM2.5. However, the requirement percent vegetation cover (PVC) is likewise a shadow for careful analysis to recommend the requirement percent and area of vegetation for different parts of the metropolitan. In this paper, we propose a four-phase intelligent algorithm for investigating PM2.5 and critical situations to detect unhealthy air quality monitoring stations (AQMSs). Our algorithm makes a decision based on fuzzy and neural network methods and recommends the percent density and area of vegetation. Our analysis of the weather condition is event-driven, considering rainfall as an event to examine the situation of each AQMS before and after rainfall. The experiments demonstrate reducing PM2.5 > 150 to PM2.5 < 50 using recommending PVC of approximately 20–74%. We achieved these results by periodically estimating and evaluating weather conditions in the autumn and winter as two critical seasons of the year.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Amir Masoud Rahmani

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

    Seyedeh Yasaman Hosseini Mirmahaleh

  3. Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Vietnam

    Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

  4. Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

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Rahmani, A.M., Mirmahaleh, S.Y.H. & Hosseinzadeh, M. An intelligent algorithm to recommend percent vegetation cover (ARVC) for PM2.5 reduction. Air Qual Atmos Health 13, 859–870 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-020-00844-4

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