Abstract
In response to accidents and disasters involving the proliferation of pollutants to the environment, performing exposure assessments across a region of impact is important for evaluating health effects. Owing to the typical unavailability of the spatially continuous data of pollutant concentrations immediately after accidents, various spatial interpolation methods have been studied to assess exposures using limited available data. In this study, we compared representative spatial interpolation methods based on the estimation of the distributions of exposures through a case study of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster initiated by the Great East Japan earthquake and subsequent tsunamis. The nearest neighbour method, inverse distance weighted method, and ordinary kriging method were compared in the context of exposure assessments. Even though estimated air dose rates were slightly different depending on the method used, different interpolation methods produced significantly equivalent estimates of the distribution of cumulative exposure over one year.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | HEALTHINF 2019 - 12th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2019 |
| Editors | Roman Moucek, Ana Fred, Hugo Gamboa |
| Publisher | SciTePress |
| Pages | 415-421 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789897583537 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 Jan 1 |
| Event | 12th International Conference on Health Informatics, HEALTHINF 2019 - Part of 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2019 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 2019 Feb 22 → 2019 Feb 24 |
Publication series
| Name | HEALTHINF 2019 - 12th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2019 |
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Conference
| Conference | 12th International Conference on Health Informatics, HEALTHINF 2019 - Part of 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2019 |
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| Country | Czech Republic |
| City | Prague |
| Period | 19/2/22 → 19/2/24 |
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Keywords
- Air Pollutants
- Exposure Assessment
- Nuclear Substance
- Spatial Interpolation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biomedical Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Comparison of spatial interpolation methods based on exposure assessments of air pollutants : A case study on nuclear substances in Fukushima. / Otani, Takahiro; Takahashi, Kunihiko; Takeuchi, Ayano; Asami, Mari.
HEALTHINF 2019 - 12th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2019. ed. / Roman Moucek; Ana Fred; Hugo Gamboa. SciTePress, 2019. p. 415-421 (HEALTHINF 2019 - 12th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2019).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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