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Atmospheric air quality is one of the key factors influencing human health. Air quality evaluation is not an easy task as the atmosphere is a complex system subjected to continuous changes in time. Observed progress in the development of measurement devices and technologies is fundamental for acquisition of more reliable information about condition and quality of atmospheric air. Unfortunately, this process leads to an increase in the monitoring and air quality evaluation cost, which limits their widespread application. Accordingly, there is a search for new, cheap, alternative methods of information acquisition about air quality in the field of both new chemical sensors and sensor matrices. The technologies are developed, which allow monitoring of hardly accessible and dangerous for human placed where air pollution occurred. Moreover, the paper presents and discusses current measurement tools utilized for atmospheric air quality evaluation. The development trends connected with atmospheric air monitoring were also presented.

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Gębicki, J., Szulczyński, B. (2019). Remote Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants. In: Płotka-Wasylka, J., Namieśnik, J. (eds) Green Analytical Chemistry. Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9105-7_11

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