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ArticleEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2019

Applying machine learning to forecast daily Ambrosia pollen using environmental and NEXRAD parameters.

Gebreab K Zewdie, Xun Liu, Daji Wu, David J Lary, Estelle Levetin

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Article in Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Geospatial technology in environmental health applications.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2019
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  5. Applying Deep Neural Networks and Ensemble Machine Learning Methods to Forecast AirborneInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gebreab K ZewdieWilliam B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA. gebreab.zewdie@utdallas.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1797-8967
Xun LiuWilliam B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.
Daji WuWilliam B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.
David J LaryWilliam B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.
Estelle LevetinThe University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, 74104, USA.
The University of Texas at Dallas · USUniversity of Tulsa · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Approximately 50 million Americans have allergic diseases. Airborne plant pollen is a significant trigger for several of these allergic diseases. Ambrosia (ragweed) is known for its abundant production of pollen and its potent allergic effect in North America. Hence, estimating and predicting the daily atmospheric concentration of pollen (ragweed pollen in particular) is useful for both people with allergies and for the health professionals who care for them. In this study, we show that a suite of variables including meteorological and land surface parameters, as well as next-generation radar (NEXRAD) measurements together with machine learning can be used to estimate successfully the daily pollen concentration. The supervised machine learning approaches we used included random forests, neural networks, and support vector machines. The performance of the training is independently validated using 10% of the data partitioned using the holdout cross-validation method from the original dataset. The random forests (R= 0.61, R

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Environmental MonitoringMachine LearningAntigens, PlantForecastingHumansHypersensitivityPlant ExtractsRadarWeatherAntigens, PlantPlant Extractsragweed pollenEnvironmental parametersMachine learningNEXRAD measurementsPollen

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