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ArticleRemote sensing of environment2020

Spatiotemporal Imputation of MAIAC AOD Using Deep Learning with Downscaling.

Lianfa Li, Meredith Franklin, Mariam Girguis, Frederick Lurmann, Jun Wu, Nathan Pavlovic, Carrie Breton, Frank Gilliland, Rima Habre

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Article in Remote sensing of environment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Lianfa LiDepartment of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Meredith FranklinDepartment of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Mariam GirguisDepartment of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Frederick LurmannSonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA, USA.
Jun WuProgram in Public Health, Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Nathan PavlovicSonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA, USA.
Carrie BretonDepartment of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Frank GillilandDepartment of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Rima HabreDepartment of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
University of Southern California · USSonoma Technology (United States) · USUniversity of California, Irvine · US

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES007048 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Joseph Leo Wiemels · 1996 to 2026
$46.4M
Lifecourse Approach to Developmental Repercussions of Environmental Agents on Metabolic and Respiratory Health (LA DREAMERs)UH3OD023287 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI BASTAIN, THERESA M, BRETON, CARRIE VAN DOREN · 2018 to 2022
$28.4M
Lifecourse Approach to Developmental Repercussions of Environmental Agents on Metabolic and Respiratory health (LA DREAMERs)UG3OD023287 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI BRETON, CARRIE VAN DOREN, GILLILAND, FRANK D. · 2016 to 2017
$6.5M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES007048NIH HHS UG3 OD023287NIH HHS UH3 OD023287
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aerosols have adverse health effects and play a significant role in the climate as well. The Multiangle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) provides Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) at high temporal (daily) and spatial (1 km) resolution, making it particularly useful to infer and characterize spatiotemporal variability of aerosols at a fine spatial scale for exposure assessment and health studies. However, clouds and conditions of high surface reflectance result in a significant proportion of missing MAIAC AOD. To fill these gaps, we present an imputation approach using deep learning with downscaling. Using a baseline autoencoder, we leverage residual connections in deep neural networks to boost learning and parameter sharing to reduce overfitting, and conduct bagging to reduce error variance in the imputations. Downscaled through a similar auto-encoder based deep residual network, Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications Version 2 (MERRA-2) GMI Replay Simulation (M2GMI) data were introduced to the network as an important gap-filling feature that varies in space to be used for missingness imputations. Imputing weekly MAIAC AOD from 2000 to 2016 over California, a state with considerable geographic heterogeneity, our full (non-full) residual network achieved mean R

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aerosol optical depthair qualitydeep learningdownscalingMAIACMERRA-2 GMI Replay Simulationmissingness imputation

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PMID32158056
PMCPMC7063693
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