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On the basis of the scale of the phenomenon being monitored, air pollution monitoring problems can be divided into two general categories: 1) local monitoring and 2) regional and global monitoring. Problems associated with horizontal scales less than ~100 km and vertical scales less than ~1 km — such as monitoring of single sources, neighborhoods, towns, cities, and metropolitan areas — fall into the first category. Problems associated with horizontal scales greater than ~100 km and vertical scales greater than ~1 km fall into the second category. A satellite observing system based upon remote sensing is particularly suited for problems of the second category.
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Ohring, G., Otterman, J., Joseph, J. (1973). Global Air Pollution Monitoring from Satellites: Prospects and Problems. In: Barrekette, E.S. (eds) Pollution. Environmental Science Research, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0330-3_6
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