Feed-forward artificial neural network model for air pollutant index prediction in the Southern Region of Peninsular Malaysia

Azman, Azid and Hafizan, Juahir and Mohd Talib, Latif and Sharifuddin, Mohd Zain (2013) Feed-forward artificial neural network model for air pollutant index prediction in the Southern Region of Peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Environmental Protection, 4 (12). pp. 1-10. ISSN 2152-2197

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Abstract

This paper describes the application of principal component analysis (PCA) and artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the air pollutant index (API) within the seven selected Malaysian air monitoring stations in the southern region of Peninsular Malaysia based on seven years database (2005-2011). Feed-forward ANN was used as a prediction method. The feed-forward ANN analysis demonstrated that the rotated principal component scores (RPCs) were the best input parameters to predict API. From the 4 RPCs, only 10 (CO, O3, PM10, NO2, CH4, NmHC, THC, wind direction, humidity and ambient temp) out of 12 prediction variables were the most significant parameters to predict API. The results proved that the ANN method can be applied successfully as tools for decision making and problem solving for better atmospheric management

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